Fame And Fortune Weekly (no. 400) (1913 05 30)
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BANA “He is:tize cause of the disturbance, officer,” said Phil, laying one hand on the policeman’s shoulder amid pointing with the other at Clarence, as the crowd surged into the office. “Don’t you believe him,” protested Clarence. “He started the rumpus himself.” Ee
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Fame and Fortune Weekly STORIES OF BOYS WHO MAKE MONEY 4 > Za. Issued Weekly—By Subscription $2.50 per year. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1918, in the office of the : D Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. O., a Sa Frank Tousey, Publisher, 168 West 28d Street, New York. : Entered at the New York, Y., Post Office as Second-Class Matter. —— ia . No. 400. NEW YORK, MAY 30, 1913. Price 5 Cents. A BORN AEE 35 : ote THE SUCCESS OF A CHAPTER I. a AN OPTION DEAL. “Well, Jackson, for cool, unadulterated nerve your late mes- s Speneer, young Farrington, takes the persimmon,” said Broker _ Mardy, stopping Broker Jackson on the street about eleven _ one morning. “How so, Hardy?” asked Jackson, with a look of surprise. _ “How so? ’t you aware that he has actually hired a room in the Otsego Building and hung out his shingle as a _ full-fledged broker?” Dies - simply ridiculous.” » “No, I’m’ not joking. If you don’t believe what I am telling ‘you just pay a visit to the Otsego Building. Take the eleva- tor up to the sixth floor. Follow the main corridor to the rear, and there, on the left-hand side, last door, you will see . ‘Philip Farrington, stocks and bonds,’ on the glass, as plain as you ever saw anything in your life.” “Pshaw! That's some new trader of the same name.” “Not at all. It is your late messenger.” _ “Tt can’t be, Such a supposition is perfectly absurd, Hardy. _ Who ever heard of a boy stockbroker—an ex-messenger boy at that?” said Jackson, impatiently. “Whether there ever has been a boy stockbroker before “-T’m not prepared to affirm or deny; but that there is one now, in the person of your late messenger, I’m Teady to swear. I'd like to bet a hundred dollars on it, I pranet win that sum of money easier.” “Tll bet you a ten dollar pill you're arene am on the job, and I hope to succeed on my own: merits,” said Phil, in a confident tone. ; “Oh, I’m not worrying about what you do. If you can. afford to make a fool of yourself you have a right to do it, ‘Fools rush in where angels fear to tread’ is an old say
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A BORN i 5 ‘aie Ps 2 “You mean the lambs rush in where wise persons fear to / tread,” grinned Phil. _/ “Tomean what I said,” replied Jackson. “Tm afraid your business has suffered: somewhat since you allowed me to get away {fom your office, and that has ruffled your feelings a bit. Have a cigar? I will accord you the honor of taking the first whack at the box. Don’t be afraid. of them. They are genuine Riena Perfectos,” said the boy broker, as he offered his late employer a full box of good cigars to help himself from. -» Jackson, after a momentary hesitation, accepted a cigar and lighted it. , ‘Phil passed the: box to his other| visitor and Hardy took Z one also. + “So you are learning ‘to smoke, too?” said Jackson, © ; “No, sir.These cigars are for my visitors and my custo- mers. I am a boy as yet, and in my opinion smoking ‘doesn't do a boy any good, I have heard that it has a tendency to retard their growth, not to. speak of introducing nicotine | poison into their system. At any rate, I have no! desire to - indulge in the weed,” “Tam glad to hear that you have one virtue,” Ate Jackson. “Thank you, sir. When I worked for you you thought I had more than one. You told several traders that you con- “eidered me one of the smartest messengers in the Street.” ' ‘iret MT have no fault to find with your abilities as a messenger.’ “Tm glad t hear it. I nae to prove as good a broker as I was a. messenger,’ Jackson, snorted, but refrained from ‘making the ‘comment 1 the’ boy's speech that, was in his mind. oi suppose you haven't done any business yet?” gald Hardy. “No, sir. J have only. just got fitted up here, It will take little time before I> ‘can expect to do. much or anything except take a flyer‘on my. own! account.” ; “Then you intend to speculate, eh? Be. Mahe pwn ete until some of the others come your way?” BAS “Yes, | sir: » J. have to do something to keep my hand in. 4 “Your finish will be all the quicker,” said Jackson,\ . _ .“T hope not., I managed to. avoid getting rag in. the i shuffle while. I was: working for he T ought to as well vat. 1 can. devote my. altentiqn 1 Hy, to any, eal I may till be ‘working ‘ “Had you let sbsculation alone 3 vou : for me.” “ ai suppose 80, ate should not have seeumulated! te capt- ‘tal [now have to-work on.” “Whatever that capital amounts to, and ‘ibean't be so much, f you. will not be long. in losing. it in the ga: ‘When experi- enced traders frequently find See “against ahs you, ~ with: me experience, can hardly ho Be ue AE lose any of my. fleece, I feaaie m a, squeal over ‘it. Maybe you'd like to try a little slice of my bank account. was thinking of getting in on ‘Sauthern Railwa, . Want to ell me an option on 1,000? \. fers Jackson stared at him. y ooking for a thousand sulires i it are > you! ; “Yes.” “why don’t you go to the little bank where you. hee been, rading and. buy the stock on a ten per cent. Margin?» You n’t expect me to sell you an option at the market price.” _ yalue for the privilege of a fifteen day call,” said Phil, “T judge you make this offer because | your capital is too small to enable you to get 1,000 shares’ any ‘other way. But patna littie bank will sell you 1,000 shares on a five per cent. n, and you can get it at 115, so aeag oa two. points I asa know that V aa don’t you take him up, Jeoksou aheutd ‘take a boom on.” “T don’t want to rob the boy,” sata Teeny pte If you ‘Don't you worry about ponbing ae ‘Mr. fackson. ‘sell me. the. option I shall expect ti ce a ages opr ot it. am. not in business for my health, _ aid Phil. “You have acqvired a ie ae ippear to be so certain. of ng a profit ‘at 147," “Whether I have or have hing me the option, a If you will make the deal I have the. - good bi deposit. I have figured | ee safe : out a aga “4 —= : a foi SON SEG ees > wc ST Coma Ie aa ARTI A | his deposit.” , 4 “Of course not. The stock is going at 115. I’m willing to, “117 and give you a five per cent. deposit of the current. greatly tickled at the ideaof Hardy getting badly left on the option deal with the boy broker, for, in his opinion, Hardy Jackson meant, in that event, to tell tt all around the Ex yo can make $2,000 any easier, no es } if ‘the stock| to purchase such an option. Southern | Railway. that you fifteen or twenty pdints wi not has nothing ‘to do with you} or the| es of}and Hardy called on him, and w ent hi terms BROKER. “T understand all that, sir,” replied the boy broker, coolly. “Take him up, Jackson. You ‘might win nearly $6,000. If he’s so foolish as to throw his money at you, why you might as well take it as anybody else. He’s sure to find some - broker that will close with him. In fact, I’m ready to do it if you won't.” “No, I couldn’t take the money of a boy who’s been my messenger. I wouldn’t mind accommodating him if I thought he wouldn’t lose anything by it; but to take advantage of a young fool like Farrington is not in my line.” “Then you won't sell me the option?” said Phil. ; “No, I’d rather not.” ‘ ‘ F: “Py go you if you're determined to buy an option’ on Southern Railway from somebody,” said Hardy. “Sit down at my desk and draw it up while I get the money.” said Phil. Hardy took his chair and drew up the option by which he <i agreed to deliver 1,000 shares of Southern Railway to Phil’ Farrington at any time’ within fifteen days from date at 117, no matter what the market price was at the time the bo ae called on him for the stock. f The said Farrington was to deposit five per cent. of the fe p rent or market price at that. moment, which was 115, making ~ the value of the 1,000 shares $115,000, five per cent. of which | amounted to $5,750. J : If the said Farrington failed to call for and pay for the © shares at 117 within the term of the option then the opie. lapsed and Broker Hardy was to keep the deposit... He signed it; and handed it to Phil, The boy broker read it over, nodded and handed. hint the - deposit, taking a. receipt for. the amount, for it repres mt d @ small part. of the sum he had agreed to pay for the shar. “You're a gouger, Hardy,” said Jackson, disaj “I never let a good thing get away from me, as he put the money in his pocket. ; -“T hope the pales booms to 125 so hs 6 n sgcogie “Let it. All I am counting on is the. 2, legitimate profit. As, soon as I get to the, ‘a the 1,000 shares at 115.” ra “You'd better hurry, then, Mr. Hardy,”. aia Phil, wher wae" looking at the tape that was recling out of his private | ticker. “Southern ‘Railway. is now going at 116.” : “What's that?” eried Hardy, ‘making a diveit ‘the tape. One glance showed him’ the truth. of Phil's” remark and ia started for the door, “Ha, ha, ba! I Sard you wie stuck, ie laughed Jackson, greatly tickled. ; Then he looked at the tape and na a the next quotatio registered 116 1-8. The quotations on Southern Rail seas out. thick or fast, each higher than the other, 4 by the time Hardy reached the Exchange it was selling. at 118, and he was $1,000 to the bad on his. a at’ that moment whatever "eaten ‘be the ultimate result. | f CHAPTER ch sO a ay HOW THE OPTION DEAL cane our.’ Jackson left Phil's office in great good humor, Fak ye He had lost $10 to his friend Hardy, it is true, but he was ‘should not have made such a deal with so. inex beriendeg lad as his (Jackson’s) late messenger. ; ’ Tt would bé a good joke on Hardy if he got stuck, and — change, and have the laugh on him. i Phil was just as pleased himself when left: alone, for, hejtelt, Me, certain of winning out, otherwise he. never bie cs have ae f A big broker, who was ve ery friendly tara! ‘atin, ‘on: ae count of a service he had performed for him some month: before, had let him in on a bit of inside formation after making him promise td keep it dark. The tip in question was that a powerful combine had ‘cornered Southern Sid and would send the ‘price w hin a few days. . The broker told Phil that he might find a few shares float jng around, but that his most likely chance of making some thing was to try and buy an een on. Southern, Railway | the best figure he could get it f Minna fifteen day delivery “Phil received his tip only. a8 “hie tae befo: f me ‘im in such a oor m
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A BORN —. buy the option of him and thus prove to ‘Mr. Jackson that he wasn’t so very slow after all. to tae Jackson refused on the ground. ‘that he didn’t want Hi é the boy’s money, showing that he had some conscience, y, who felt. no compunctions on the subject, accommo- dated Phil, as we have shown, hoping to make everything there was in sight, even if it put the boy broker out. of ' business. free Watt Hardy won’t make as much as he thought he was going to,” chuckled Phil. “In fact he might not make any- thing at all, or he might even lose, for he is likely to find it ' hard to secure eyen 1,000 shares to cover his option. At the Yate the price jumped a little while ago to 18 1-2 I’m thinking “it was over 117 by the time Mr. Hardy reached the Exchange. If he waits, hoping the price will fall, he stands a chance of losing quite a sum, for it is my opinion that the price will not go back much now that the combine has started the boom. I bought that option just in the nick of time. . I thought I had plenty of time to look, aroun '- see now that if my laté boss and Hardy had not called I Ew might haye got left. At any rate I would have.been obliged to _ give 120 or oyer for an option on Southern Railway.” Phil picked up the mining journal and resumed his reading, '. Jackson, on‘his way to the office, met several brokers and i told them that his late messenger had hired an office in the Otsego Building and was posing as a stock broker. He algo told them about the option Hardy had sold him, and laughed when he said that the ink was hardly dry on the paper when the stock went up three points and a half. * The news that there was actually a boy broker in the field _ -otcasioned yeonsiderable merriment as it circulated about . Wall Stréet, which it did in a very short time, for every ‘broker who heard about it considered it too good to keep. , Lamon others. it reached the ears of a broker named cat) n, : “Who is. the boy?” he asked his informant. “Some chap with. more money than brains who is trying, to break into. the game?” ete It's Jackson’s. inte messenger.” ._ “A messenger boy turned broker!” cried Tyson, incredu- ‘ously. cee “That's how I got it.” : fe “Where is he holding forth?” ee i “In the Otsego Building, sixth floor.” - He must have, coms into a’ legacy, and like all crazy boys who seeac é to be their own boss, he is making a splurge with his money. Such a Reed thing ought not to be allowed to ae the shears.” Lt ei idea hov W he came into his money, but he ave some or he could not take gnd furnish up an office i Wall Street.” ‘T think rn call on him and make his id “That's a saf et. i aintance.” ie igre; “Thus ‘speaking, Tysoh walked off. with the purpose in his “mind of annexing some of the boy Aroker's capital if he + eould get hold of it. ~~ Southern Railway continued to go up, and two days after Phil bought the 2 shoats from: Broker: Hardy it was ruling vat 122. _ > Hardy did not try is ie, the 1,000 shares at 118, believing - that the price wou! go down in a short time, and conse- to. the bad. | fifteen-day option to the boy broker, binding himself to deliver 1,000 shares of the stock at 117, he was. Made the butt of a great deal of good-humored banter, This, with the loss in sight, did not tend to make him feel| any too happy. nie as _ here was no - -yance information about Southern Railway somehow, other- ¥y wise he wouldn’t have tried to ‘get the option. - happen with respect to the price of a stock is perfectly justi- - fied in trying to take every advantage of it, therefore the oy broker had not acted differently than any other trader would have done under the same circumstances, When w, hl 122, ong that the tendeney aoe a, tou advance, | soone! chan . ia me ‘sha : for it, but 1 ‘himself in a hole through the deal, quently he was: now deeper in the hole. ‘than ever, being $5, 000° As all the brokers had tieard by. this’ time that he had sold. BM! Ge: felt. like. ‘kicking Phil and himself into the bargain, put he could: not deny that the deal was a perfectly fair one. MS doubt in his mind that Phil had secured ad-| Any one securing inside information - f what is going to Hardy saw that. the price of Southern Railway was j cs BROKER. 3 them, and he had to borrow a large part of the money to pay for them. About this time Broker Tyson called upon Phil Farrington. | Phil was in when he called. “J heard there was a boy broker in this building by the name of Farrington, but I didn’t believe it, and came up here to satisfy myself,” said Tyson, helping himself to a chair. “T am Phil Farrington and the sign on the door says I am in the brokerage business. As I am only eighteen years old I guess I can be called a boy broker,” said Phil. “If you have bet with any of your friends against that fact you have lost.” “No, I haven't bet. So you are really in the brokerage: game? What are you doing?” “Trying to make money like anybody else.” “Did you buy an ppelont on. Southern Railway from Hardy?” ANTE 2 ts See oS 3 “You agreed to pay him 117 for the stock I heard.” “J won't affirm or deny that statement. I don’t consider it a matter which concerns anybody but Mr, Hardy and my- self, If he has given out the facts that is his business. if shouldn't think he'd care to do it, though. Ms “Well, maybe not, considering that he appears to have got You must have had inside information about Southern Railway.” ~~ ts “That is a matter I don’t care to discuss.” aM ‘ “Tt stands to reason that you did. Nobody offers two points rh above the market for a stock without having some strong yi ‘reason.’ ‘ “I'd prefer not; $a talk about that option deal.” 9 7 “Very well. What else are you in on?” ea “Tam not saying.” “How would you like to get next to a good an Ae “What's the good thing?” “The good thing is Iron Mountain, It’s going at 45, vite is a bedrock price for the stock, I loaded a. with it in peo ie cipation of the rise that is certain to co Unfortunately for myself I’ve got to sell a portion of it for I must’ have a certain sum to swing the orders of my customers. T’ll sell you 500 or 1,000 shares for 44. As I suppose you haven't got | enough money to pay for the stock I’ll accept a reasonable . ‘amount from you on account, and will hold the. stock sub- sree to your order,” said Tyson. Phil shook his head. eae “T don’t care about going into any more deals at present,” Tyson looked disappointed. “You are missin a good thing by letting this get bY, you.” “Sorry, but we all miss good things occasionally.” 2 “Then I can’t induce you to take hold?” me “No, sir, ” 4 t “How would you. like to tnke a few thousand shares ina new mine—the Great Northern? It is a ten-cent stock, but fe can sell you a-block for eight cents,” era “I'm not touching mining shares at present.” . - Bh? “Then I can’t do any business with you i ae “I’m afraid not,” replied Phil. Tyson, having no further excuse for remaining, got up ad took his leave. That afternoon Southern Railway went to 126. Next day there was intense excitement on the Pxchange when it jumped to 130.) Phil called around to 8ee Broker Hardy, 'at the Board-room, ‘The boy broker made his way to the ante-room and sent” a Stock Exchange boy out on the floor to find him, ect When he came Phil said: pind “ “Do you want to settle with me at 129 cash, you keeping ct thé stock, or shall I sell the option to a trader who has promised to take it off my hands? Iam giving you the Lee inixiat ns to make $1,000.” oy _“P1] take your offer,” said Hardy. on this deal,” ? “Then you can’t make anythin, even when I’m letting hash: keep it at a point below the market?” “Not a cent. When I reached the Exchange the day you bought the option the price was up to 118, and not for Bgay at phat, It has been going up ever since.” dn’t you buy the stock at all?” at 4 es, I bought it, but it cost me $4,000 more than : paeey rte katieatied to let you have it for,” } “You may recover that yet. Tt is pte peeainbe Sow a lway to go to 183, which ee ahd : “Tt might, but it is doubtful. It i “He gave’ fens his check for 84 = Te but he was over he os ae ae “You've put it over me
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4. A BORN BROKER. 129, plus the $5,750 deposit, or $17,750 and the boy igs sc returned him his option, “That closed the deal with a profit of $12,000 for Phil. CHAPTER ITI. = HELD UP ON THE HIGHWAY. “I’m not doing so bad for a, beginner,” said Phil to him- self after cashing Hardy’s check. “It is true I haven’t done any actual brokerage business yet, but as long as I make the money it doesn’t matter much to me how I do it, as long as I come honestly by it.” He returned to his office and locked his funds up in his office’ safe where he guessed it would be safe enough, for it. wasn’t likely that his office would be burglarized. . Phil lived with his aunt in a Seventh avenue apartment house in Harlem. His father and mother and three sisters lived on a,farm in New Jersey. Phil went down to the farm once or twice a month and spent Sunday with his folks. ‘ ‘ Farmer Farrington, his wife and daughters were very proud 7 of Phil, not only because he was the boy of the family, but : also because he worked in Wall Street. “They considered that anybody having a business connec- tion with the financial district of New York was much above the common, and in a fair way to make his fortune. - Phil's uncle by marriage had got him the job as office boy with Broker Jackson three years since. He was a rather raw country youth when he started in to work in Wall Street, but being uncommonly smart and bright he’ made good right off the reel. aie. When he paid his first visit to the farm at that time his own ~ - family hardly knew him after a two month’s absence. The country look had fallen away from him and he was as much like a chipper city boy as they come. Needless to say he produced something of a sensation among his folks, as well as among the neighbors who had known him since he was in pinafores. From that time on Phil expected to be treated with a cer- _ tain amount of condescension by his people and the jays in ’ the immediate vicinity, and his expectations were, to a cer- . tain extent, realized. He had something now to tell about the metropolis every time he went down to the farm, and when he began speculat- ing on the quiet and making considerable more on the side than he received in wages for his work, his importance in- creased. 5 ‘The last time he was down to see his folks he told a bunch --- of farmers at the crossroads general store, at which, he a, always stopped on his way from the station if the buggy was not promptly on time to meet him, that he was think- ing of buying a railroad and running it himself as a side issue, and they believed him. ‘That was nearly a month since, and he was then running 5 errands for Mr. Jackson just as he had been. doing for the ' past three years, and was expecting shortly to be promoted to the counting-room. A few days after his return he had the run in with Jack- son which ended his connection with the broker’s office, and led to his setting up for himself. ‘He was too much interested in his new departure to pay an immediate visit to the farm, but instead he wrote his father briefly telling him he was now a Wall Street broker, and inclosing a copy of his advertisement to prove it. ‘This announcemant produced a big sensation on the farm, and his father came within an ace of packing his grip and coming on to New York on account of it. ' He changed his mind at the last minute and stayed at home, though he knew ne would be royally welcomed by his sister at her’ flat. Tarmer Duietnaton never felt Gasy in his sister’s flat when- - ever he did come on to see her and Phil, and that was why his visits became rarer. ' <A flat, in his estimation, was an abomination, because he declared there ‘wasn ‘t room enough in it to draw one’s breath. ' Phil, feeling like a fighting cock after winning his option deal, decided that it was the proper ting for him to visit his people. A Accordingly, he wrote a letter to his father, telling him to pect him on the following Saturday afternoon, and forgot “The: letter was in his pocket, unknown to him, when he his late messenger. | the train, ante swould land him at the village station, at ba & 7. who: at —— When he got off’ the train he was disappointed to note that the buggy was not on-hand as he figured it should be. i “I’ve a great mind to hire an automobile and go down to the farm in style,” he thought. “I wonder if they expect me | to walk to the cross-roads as I have done when the rig was behind-hand? That was well enough when I was a broker’s messenger, but now that I’m a broker myself I don’t believe lit.” y 4 Whether he believed in it or not, it looked as if he would have to do it or remain at the station until the buggy came for him. ee . “Hello, Mister Phil,” said the station agent, “be you waitin’ for your pap to come arter you?” ; “What do you suppose I’m waiting for, Josh Smith? I guess I’ll shake the train after this and come down in my touring car,” answered Phil. “Hev you a tourin’ car? Seems to me them things are gettin’ mighty common. Everybody has ’em.” “Have you one?” “T don’t need any. I live right on the ground here.” P “Can I rent one in the village to take me to the farm?”’ “T dunno, Kind of doubtful. Don’t believe them kind of wagons is kept on hire in the village, leastway I ain’t never heard that they are,” said the agent. “T guess I’ll have to walk as far as the cross-roads. meet the buggy on the way,” said. Phil. The boy broker started off, wondering why the rig from the farm had not showed up. e “JT haven’t been down here for a month. Seems to me the folks ought to be falling over themselves in their rush to see me. Nellie could have driven over here just as well as not | a if dad and the hired man were too busy to spare the time. 0 Considering they now have a real Wall Street broker in the ~ nf family, they should appreciate the honor I pay them by. com- ‘dies ing down here,” he chuckled. “Then there’s that suitcase — full of presents for them which I had to leave in charge of - Josh at the station. The buggy will have to go after it any- way if I meet it on the road.” It was only a short walk to the cross- eae where there: was a handful of houses and a general store. ; es Apparently an effort had originally been made to stat a new Village at that point but it had not succeeded. ee, In addition to the general store there was a blacksmith ; shop, which now advertised the fact that the proprietor dealt — in gasoline and other things necessary for the use and repair’ of automobiles. ie When Phil came in sight of the cross-roads he saw a number of people, comprising the residents of the locality, standing © in front of the general. store, ‘and there seemed to be. some- thing going on. — Maar Phil was rather curious to learn what was in the wind and ; he hurried some. ; When he came up he saw two well dressed men, a6 Ati looked mussed and sprinkled with dust, and a man in. a Aa ay chauffeur’s outfit, in the center of the assemblage. One of the gentlemen was talking excitedly and geslotiebe! ing with both arms. “What's the excitement?” asked Phil, of a rural youth. “Them two gents say they were stopped two or. three | miles back by two men with guns and robbed of their money, ~ a case of diamonds and their automobile.” ne “Tg that 0?” said Phil, greatly interested. “They were in — a car at the time, eh? How did the rascals hold them up?” . “They had a strong wire, or something of that kind, stretched across the road, and the auto ran into it. Then they jumped into it, robbed the gents and threw them and the driver into the road. After that they ran off with the machine,” said the boy. op Phil pushed his way into the crowd and was surprised to — recognize his former employer, Mr. Jackson, as oné of the unfortunates. “Hello, Mr. Jackson,” he said, “{ Lear you’ve met with trouble.” pers? “That you, Phil?” said Hlson, egually surprised at seeing “What brings you down here?” “Why, my folks live uboxt five miles from here, close ‘to ae Crystal Lake. You know that I came down here about eee Me second Saturday to “sit them.” ras “Oh, yes, I remeniber now. Mr. Paxon, this is Phil amine To fon, until recently employed in my office a3 messe nger,” in- Bis troducing Phi! <6 his companion. - a y Paxon sheek hands with Phil. E iy Jackson then explained now heland pases: were on. thelr ; way. to oe Sunday. with a mutual friend; H nry. Watkins, a fine Chae on Snyatal Lake, he, “ve ‘a ae were sige =. Sallie Ae hed +e Ae ” Peg, ; es wu I may
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A BORN BROKER. 5 ean to stop by two men standing in the middle of the road. d oe The chauffeur was slowing up when the car hit an invisible obstruction and came to a stop. ig The men then sprang into the ear, struck them each a vio- lent blow on the head with their fists, went through their clothes and took their money, watches and other ‘valuables, including a case of diamonds they had been intrusted with by a Maigen Lane jeweler. to deliver to the gentleman they were on their way to visit, and completed their work by throwing them and the chauffeur out into the road and mak- A ing off in the car in the same direction they were proceeding. The car had been seen passing the cross-roads some time before, going in the direction of the lake, so the proprietor of the general store had informed them. : ‘ “You'd better get on to the village, half a mile from here, Mr. Jackson, and tell your story to the constable. I don’t know that you can do any better. You will find a small hotel there where you can fix yourselves up, and ‘then you will be able to find a rig to take you to the gentleman’s place at the lake where you’re bound,” said Phil. “That is what the proprietor of this store advised us to do Yowre not walking to the farm, are you?” “I walked as far as this place from the station expecting to meet the buggy that always comes after me. It hasn't shown up yet, and I don’t know what to make of the matter. T sent a letter to my folks two days ago telling them I was coming down on the train that reaches the village at one- thirty. Somebody from the farm should have been on hand when the train arrived. I’m going to stay here till the buggy comes along. I think I’ll have to buy a car and come all the way in style after this,” laughed Phil. “I would. I guess you made enough out of your option deal to buy two or three cars. I'll take back some of the uncomplimentary things I said to you in your office that day, for that was a mighty clever piece of work, buying that option. I am glad I didn’t take your offer or I should have been stuck instead of Hardy. Had anybody but you made the offer I think I would have closed with him. But I thought your offer a foolish one, and that you would get stuck on it. _,As you had worked for me for three years I didn’t want to ‘be the person to profit by your mistake,” said Jackson. “It’s fortunate for you that you thought that way. When I made the offer to you I knew, as well as anybody in Wall Street can know anything, that Southern Railway was on the eve of a boom. I expected, however, that you would make $2,000 by buying the stock at 115. As matters turned out’ you would not have had the chance to do it. You would - have been caught just as Mr. Hardy was, and on the whole I am glad you did not take me up, for I would rather have Mr. Hardy’s money than yours, as his conscience did not “ deter him from taking a shy at my deposit.” > “Well, we must be going now or those rascals may escape capture altogether. As they have the adyantage of a good “2 start, in a high power car, it’s a question with me whether _,, they'll be overhauled. Still I think the telegraph or long distance telephone should enable us to head them off some- _ where along the route they have taken.” “How much did you lose?” 5 “They got $250 of my money and nearly as much from Paxon,” said Jackson. “The worst of it is that they got away with the diamond necklace belonging to Mrs. Watkins, which was sent to New York to be repaired. It is worth $5,000, and makes a big haul for those scoundrels if they should elude capture.” 2 . ; “I should say so,” said Phil. ; e: Jackson and Paxon, accompanied by the chauffeur of the =. ear, started for the village to set justice on the trail of the two highwaymen, while Phil shook hands with Ed Parsons, -. proprietor of the general store, and they took chairs on the veranda, to have a talk till the expected buggy from the Far- rington farm came along, while the people who had gathered to hear about the hold-up on the road returned leisurely to their usual avocations... ‘ ~~ we Y ? ~CHAPTER IV. PHIL MEETS A NEW ACQUAINTANCE, ; Fifteen minutes passed away and there was no sign of the _ Parrington buggy down the road. , Phil began to grow very impatient over its failure to show up. : : “J wonder if my people expect ‘expect me to hoof it from the village - this aftefnoon?” he growled: “What, five miles anda half—hardty, 1 should think,” laughed Parsons. “Something must have detained them or maybe they didn’t get your letter or the letter miscarried. You're sure you sent it?” “Of course I’m sure of it. I put it in this inside pocket, after stamping it, and when I went out I——-oh; mercy!” - The ejaculation was drawn from Phil by the fact that he felt a letter in his pocket, pulled it out and discovered it was the letter he could Have sworn he had mailed. ; He gazed at it stupidly. Ed Parsons saw the address and uncancelled stamp and. laughed in a tickled way. “Is that the letter?” he asked, feeling sure it was. “Tt is, confound it. I forgot somehow to mail it, but thought I had done so, and it’s been in my pocket since Friday. It would give me a lot of satisfaction to kick myself around your store.” ie : “You have my permission to do so, so long as you don’t upset anything,” grinned the general storekeeper. , “Thank you, Ed. Your kindness is only exceeded by your good looks.” “That’s what the gals say when I give them extra good measure sometimes.” f ' “What do they say when in a fit of absence of mind you give them short weight?” “T never give short weight, Phil. I am too conscientious.” “Glad to know there is one honest storekeeper in the world. Now, look here, what am I going to do about getting home?” “Tm afraid you'll have to walk.” “You have a rig that you use in your business. Couldn’t you get your boy to take me home, or part of the way?” “Sure, if you wait till it gets back. My boy is delivering a lot of stuff to Farmer Wheatsheaf, two miles down the cross- road. He ought to be back soon.” } “All right. I'll. wait.” ; a} At that moment a light farm wagon came from the direc- tion of the yillage with a new plough in it. : The farm hand driving the ‘two horses turned in at the water trough in front of the store to water his team. “Here’s a chance for you, Phil, to go right on home. team belongs to the Wilson farm, down near the lake. That’s anew hand driving it. He’ll take you within a mile of your place without going out of his way.” “That will suit me first rate,” said Phil. “Come along and J’ll make you acquainted with him,” said — Parsons. . : They got up and the storekeeper introduced Phil. “I’ve heard of the Farrington farm,” said the young fel- low, whose name was Jack Jordan. “So you belong there, do you?” 34 * “I do when I’m home, which only happens once or twice a month, when I come down from New York and visit my folks over Sunday,” said Phil. | “Oh, you are working in New York?” said Jordon. “Yes, I’m in Wall Street. Just opened a brokerage office there.” “Are you a stockbroker?” said the farm hand, opening his eyes. 2 “That’s what the sign on my Here is one of them,” ; Phil handed the farm hand one of his business pasteboapds, “Gosh! Ain’t you kind of young to be a broker?” “T’ll admit I’m the youngest broker in Wall Street.” “How old are you?” ; “Wighteen.” “They say brokers make money hand over fist.” “They make a good deal of money if they have plenty customers,” “Have you many customers?” “No, I can’t say that I have. I’ve only just started.” “Oh, I see. Then you ain’t making much yet?” “I made $12,000 on a deal the other day.” This door says, and my cards, too. of “Gosh! You don’t mean that. Joking, ain’t you?” “No. It’s a fact. It took me about a week to corral the — mazuma.” ; “The what?” said-Jordon, with a puzzled look. BE Te “Mazuma—money.” j Soy “Ts that what they call it in Wall Street?” . “No. Some people call it by that name, just as others call it dough. You've read in the papers about the political dough bags, hayen’t you?” ge ay “T don’t remember,” said Jordan. ee eS “When are you géing to make a start down the road?” “I’m ready now. Jump up on the seat.” Phil turned to say goodby to the storekeeper, but he had i £5
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7 ¢,) “6 ats inside to wait on a woman customer froma nearby ouse. Jordan followed Phil and they: started off, « “Hear about the hold-up up that road?” said Phil. “No, Who was held up?” Phil related the particulars of the highway robbery of the two brokers, and the loss of their touring car. “Gosh!” exclaimed Jordan.. “That’s. the first robbery I’ve heard of in these parts, but then I’ve only been down here three weeks,” “Expect to stay right along. through the summer and fall, I suppose?” “Sure. Till I quit or Mr. Wilson lets me go,” “Then I'll probably see you again. The Wilson farm is about three miles from our place, towards the coast, You could ride over and see me some Sunday I’m down.” “I'll be glad to do it if I knew when you were down here.” “Now that I'm my own boss [ shall probably come down every Saturday.” “Those chaps who were robbed were brokers, you “said?” “Yes. ” hat have they dono about it?” ey went to the village to get the constable to act in the sabes and to telephone around to the police of the neigh- boring, towns asking them to be on the lookout for a red car bearing the number of theirs, and to arrest the men in it if they saw it.” _*They ought to be able to catch them that way.” “J hope they will. A $5,000 diamond necklace and $500 in money 1s too much to lose,” “Tis considerable. Will they.have to pay for the necklace if they don’t get it back?” *“T guess not; but they might offer to do 80, as it was in their care.” “Kind of rough on them if they have to pay out all that Money when it wasn’t their fault.” | ae to turn into the road. ~, + “Just as you say, Farrington. ee tne 7 don’t believe the gentleman, his mame is Watkins and he lives somewhere on the lake, would expect them to. make good the loss of. the necklace, or let them pay for it if they offered to do so. They could afford to do it without hurting) themselves much in pocket, for Mr. Jackson has a prosperous business, and I guess Mr. Paxon has, too. be any rate, he looks as if he was well fixed. ‘They rode along till they came to the oun: leading direct to the Farrington farm. “YT guess I'll take you to your place,” said Jordan, starting ~ “Tt isn’t necessary,” said Phil. “J’ll get down Here. I've only got a mile to walk, and that will give me appetite for a spread when I get home.” I-can take you as well as “not. I wouldn’t lose much time,” said the young farm hand. “No, I don’t want to take you out of your way, old man, You've done me a great favor by saving me a four-mile walk so Vil wish you goodby and hope to see you again before long. Phil sprang down, waved his hand to Jordan, and started on his last lap. As he swung around a turn a quarter of a mile from the other road he saw an automen He? standing in the middle of the -pranch road. We tA One man was heside it and ‘the other Tying underneath it - doing something to it. , That was not an uncommon sight on a country driveway, - for something is Hable to go wrong with a car at any time, and tools ave always carried to meet such an emergency. Sometimes it’s a tire that gives out, and a ‘Spare one has to be substituted. As Phil drew near he saw. that the car was sau in color. _ His heart gave a jump, for it struck him that this might be the stolen auto, and the two men the highway robbers who a cleaned out the brokers, « Faky CHAPTER V.' WHAT PHIL FOUND IN SHE ‘ROAD. i : “Hello, young man, do you live around this neighborhood?” 5 ae ae man who was standing as Phil came up. My father’s farm*is about three-quarters. ‘of a title fart ae on,” answered the Wall Street boy. i ae ; : “How far is it to the lake?” ~~ oe “About 2 mile in a aot line © scrod ‘the Hts" B's an by this road?” 9 ~ ‘Mr. Jackson know about this car.” 4 | ith anany: dee: A BORN BROKER, Rh Pw BE a AD TCA SLRS SSR SIL SEES SII EAI AGRE ETON SSE ETT Me AT ASAIN SALES PLUTON SE SAHEIY three miles from here that'll take you to the Sunset House on the shore.” “That’s where’ wet re bound. We've come down from Jersey f City ‘to spend Sunday there.” “What's wrong with the car?” 4 “Something gave out and she came to a stop. I don’t know much about automobiles so I can’t tell you what the trouble © is. My pal—triend, I mean—is trying to fix things up so we can go on, but he isn’t making much headway. Know any- thing about a car?” “Not enough to give you any help. How long have you been stuck here?” \ “Half an hour, more or less.” Phil regretted that he had not taken down the number of the stolen car, which would have enabled him to make sure ie aa Maley pt Rtn ey | whether, this was the same or not. He strongly suspected that it was, for it was a red one and 4 clearly of high power. g 7 asa are you going to do if you can’t make it go?” he sa *“We'll have to leave it here and send somebody who’s ex- perienced from the hotel to bring it there.” Phil looked the machine over without appearing to do so. ‘The fact that two men were connected with it seenied to confirm his suspicions. : “This is a bad place to, leave it for it blocks up the sis #1 he said, — “Can’t help it. We don’t want to leave it here, but if we can't get it going again what are we to do?” Phil had to admit that they couldn’t do anything in that case. “There isn’t much travel along this road any way I guess,” said the man. ; : “Not a whole lot,” said Phil, “but a big farm wagon, loaded ~ with manure or something else, is liable to come this’ way any time, and your car blocks. the way. fit “We can’t help that.” i a that moment his companion crawled out tequt unde the car. “T can’t get the blamed thing to work,” he said. “ell who is this?" and he looked hard at Phil, ab “Oh, a boy who lives around here,” replied his companion Just then another auto came around the turn from the | road, and the man who was driving it had to shut off. quick and put on the brake to avoid a collision with the car that was temporarily out of commission. ze “What's. the trouble?” he asked, as his machine stopped oy a yard away. ites The two men looked startled at the sudden appearance. ay atte the other car,/andput their hands on their hips, but when they noticed that two of the three persons in the car were ladies, they breathed easier. i The man who had been tukering at the car explained what. he thought was the trouble and said he couldn’t fix it. © The stranger got out of his car and went to’ take a look at the stalled one. , He got under it, called for the tool the other had bee using, and in five minutes reappeared with the remark: “I guess you'll find things all right now. You were ‘hot working on the right part. Start her up.” 5 One of the men got in and turned on the ROE BED ne The car moved ahead all right. an The other man sprang in and they proceeded ‘on, torgetting to thank the, party who had extricated them from Oe a trouble. ; That person resumed his. seat in his own car and followed a the other machine. é Phil was left standing in the road looking after both. “I'll bet that red car is the stolen one,” ke thought. “The men are bound for the Sunset House. They probably intend to leave the auto there, cross the lake in a sailboat, and cateh » a train north at the’ station half a mile from the lake, By ~ doing that they hope to get clear off, knowing that if the } tried to escape in the car they would run a chance of being’ ; caught somewhere. It’s too bad I have no means of letting — i As he spoke something lying in the road tba his attention. — The object ‘lay in the dust close to the impression made is the man when he was lying under the car. Phil walked over and picked it up. Be ase abs Tt looked like a jewelry case. ge He unlocked the patent clasp and opened it, In it, on a velvet background, lay a magnificent _nécklac ‘ that flas c in the: afternoo. _ sunsh
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A BORN Whee, what luck!” ejaculated Phil. “Those’ men were the robbers and that was the stolen car, The fellow who was under the car dropped this prize out of his pocket, and the rascals went on without missing it. VU be able to return this: th tO. Mr. Jackson and relieye his mind and Mr. Paxon’s. If ‘suppose the only way I am likely to meet the two gentlemen Will be to ride over to Mr. Watkin’s residence by and by after I get home and have had something to eat. What a surprise it will be to them to set the necklace back through me!” Feeling that he was bound to get 4& rise’ in Mr. Jackson’s estimation, Phil started on his way and in a short time ' yeached the lane that led up to the farmhouse yard. _~ His sister Nellie, in a cheap wrapper and sun bonnet, was -- ‘erossing the yard from thé truck patch with an armful of vegetables when her brother appeared. She stopped and stared at him in bewildered surprise, for “no one expected-to see him there that afternoon, though the whole family was wild for him to come down and tell them how he had so suddenly become a broker. “For gracious sake, is that you, Phil!” she cried, dropping oe vegetables and rushing forward to give him a hug and iss. : “Surest thing you know, sis,” said’ Phil, grabbing her in his - arms and swinging her off her feet. “What 9 bear you are, Phil!” cried his delighted. sister. “How did vou get here? Why didn’t you write and tell us you were coming so we could meet you at the station? Sur ely you haven't ' walked all the way from the village?” ‘“T did write.” - “We never got the letter.” “J Know you didn’t because I ‘forgot to mail it. I didn’t - discover that fact until I got to Ed Parson’s store at the cross- roads and was wondering why the buggy hadn’t come to get me. Then I found the letter in my pocket. Here it is just as I carried it in my pocket. Gee, but. I was mad over it! I - Saw a five-mile walk ahead of me over a dusty road. However, 2 owas saved the hike. One of Wilson's ° agons came along . about that time and the driver gave me a ‘lift as far as the - junction of this road. He would have brought me all the _ way, but T didn’t like to trouble him that much. I was quite _ Satisfied to walk the last mile,” ; “Well, I'm, awfully glad you’ve come, Mother and the others care” just crazy to see You, and we've all been wondering why *ydu stayed away.” How is Aunt Fanny and Uncle George?” “Fine as silk, and have sent ‘their love to all hands.” “Come right in the house and ‘surprise mother. She’s in ‘>. the kitchen.” ' Phil helped his sister pick bes the vegetables and. they went ba Oy ae the back. door... -‘Mrs. Farrington’ waa standing 4 in the bibeat mith wees back - to the Kitchen door and did not see them. f “Mother, here’s a visitor to see you,” cried Nelie. _ Mrs, Farrington turned around with a rolling pin in her hand. The. moment her eyes rested on her son she dropped the in- with an exclamation of surprised joy, and made a rush ) embrace, him. _! In another moment they were in each other's arms. ae fant vo Phil, how could you surprise us this way? Why : qT walked as far as the cress-roads and then ae a lift as far as the junction of our road, Where's father?” pet in the field with Jake.” ‘And, Tih sy delighted to see them, too,” peer Phil, “who thought the world of his three sisters. “What have you got in your pocket, Phil? 1 said Nellie, feeling the jewel. case. ~ omething for you? Guess what it is and you ean have laughed her brother, clapping his hand over the case.» Something for of the mark, ou're a poor guesser, (igs coe show you ad mother. ing to give it to my best girl”. sou “got a girl?” said ta not? Aren’t jealously. ° shee him His sister made, several guesses, but, of course, . they were | 4 peared... : BROKER. 3 ~“Oh, my goodness, where did you get that. Phil?” cried . his sister. Phas “That’s worth a pile of money,” said his mother. “Five thousand dollars,” replied the boy broker. .“Do tell us where you, goteit,” said Nellie. “Who. does it belong to? Did you find: fe on the train coming down?” “T told you I was going to give it to my best girl.” ; “What nonsense! Mother, make him tell. He’s just the worst tease in the world.” Then Phil told them about the highway robbery, how one of_ the gentlemen was his late employer, Mr: Jackson, how he had encountered the rebbers and the stolen car on the road about three-quarters of a mile from their Jane, and how he had found the stolen jewel case with the necklace in it in the road after the men had gone on their way. Naturally they were astonished at his recital, and said how _ lucky it was for the lady who*owned ae necklace that he | had found it. “I'm going to ride ‘over to the Watkins place in a little while and restore the necklace,” said Phil. “And that re- minds me I'd like something to eat. I only had a sandwich and a cup of coffee in Jersey City before leaving on the train.” a “You shall have it, my dear boy,” said his mother, “Make — some tea, Nellie, while T lay the tablecloth and get the cold — eat and bread and butter.” “Never mind the tablecloth, mother. fer This newspaper will’ do. Bring on the bread and meat, and don’t forget a slice of _ pie. You always have some when J come down.” | : “We didn’t know you were coming. However, I have some ; pie, fortunately.” Phil made a good meal, for he was hungr,, and while he was finishing up his two younger sisters got back. el They let out a scream when they saw him and in another minute were hanging around his neck. “Oh, I.say, do you want to choke me,” he said, kissing them both. f “Fanny, run out in the cornfield and tell father that Phil ‘ has come,” said Mrs. Farrington. t Fannygieparted on her errand, and in about fifteen minutes — E returned” with her father, who gave his son a royal welcome, =~ and wanted to know why he had not advised them of his in- tention of coming so the buggy could have been sent to the: station. ‘ Phil explained why and handed him the letter he had for. gotten to post. He told his father ae the robbery on the road, and about his finding the most valuable part of the robbers’ spoil. “I'm going to take the Duke an Daya to Watkins’ place, and hand over the necklace,” he sa ix 3 might as well go right away and get it over with.” His father offered no objection so Phil went to the barn, got his favorite saddle horse, and was soon on his way to the lake. he CHAPTER VI. A? THE WATKINS HOME. Phil knew where the Watkins place was on the lake, tor’ ie. oe had passed it more than once when rie g along the shore! ae road. Baa It was a splendid estate, well Loraine of a man who had retired from business a reputed millionaire. eg His wife was a beautiful womah, and his fifteen-year-old: he daughter was a lovely girl. a The boy broker was pleased at the chance to visit. these wealihy people, but though they would feel much indebted. — an for restoring the diamond necklace, he hardly eX! (3 | pected sto be added to their list of ‘acquaintances. of Of course Brokers Jackson and Paxon would also feel under obligations to him, and he might rely on them to return sc favor if he ever needed one. rs It was getting on toward sundown when he reached hes" iron gate that opened on the Watkins estate, and without shir q tae a he leaned down and pulled the bell. , the gardener, came out of the lodge house, a pretty sc Siete close to. the gate, and oe him whet ac called to ee Mr. Watkins,” replied maid, who 8 hewed | a ; i ir .
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probably’ find your car,” said Phil. “northbound train 8 : ‘A BORN ee EE EE A ee a eas See a Ce ee) Stn a Se eS eS ene Se eee ee eS SS took his name and went to notify the master of the house, who happened to be in his library at that moment with Jackson and Paxon, who had arrived a short time before, and had just finished telling him about the hold-up in the road, and the loss of his wife’s diamond necklace, The maid knocked on the library door. She was told to enter. “A young man is in the parlor who wishes to see you, sir.” she said. “Who is the young man?” “He said his name was Philip Farrington.” “That’s my late office messenger, Watkins,” said Jackson. “His father owns a farm somewhere near here, close to the Jake. We met him at theecross-roads, where he was waiting for a rig to come from the farm to take him home, to spend Sunday, I suppose. Have him in here. Maybe he has jearned something about thoge robbers and has come here to tell us. I told him Paxon and I were bound here to stay over the Sabbath.” “Bring the young man in here, Mary,” said Mr. Watkins. So Phil was ushered into the library. “How do you do, Mr. Jackson? Glad to meet you again, | Mr. Paxon,” said Phil. “I didn’t know that you had arrived here. I called to see Mr. Watkins on important business.” ““T-am Mr. Watkins,” said that gentleman. “Take a seat,” “Before you sit down, Phil, let me make you et with Mr. Watkins,” said Jackson. Phil shook hands with the gens of the house aha then sat down. - “T called to say that I ‘cue yout stolen car, and the two robbers, on My way home, Mr, Jackson,” he said. : “Where?” said the broker, eagerly. “On the branch road which passes our farm. Something was wrong with the car and they were trying to fix ite ngan! What time was Cae ap } bout three hours ago, I talked with one of them, ind “what he said I jud; ged they were bound ‘for a 9 Sunset Bowe on the lake.” “Good! If they’ve put up there we'll have them? said Jackson, “and your wife will.get her negklace,” he added to Mr. Watkins. “If you will order out your car we'll all start for the Sunset House right away.” ~~ *T don’t believe you'll find them there, though you will “It is my opinion that as ‘soon as they got there they abandoned the car, and hired a sailboat to take them across the lake so they could catch a at the village near the lake. If they caught an early train they are at Jersey City by thi time.” e _ “Too bad you didn’t come on here at once before you went. - home,” said Jackson. “How. long have you been here?” “About half an hour.” “Then I wouldn’t haye met you.” “But you could have explained the case to Mr. Watkins. Now, that necklace may be lost for good bd the police can get on the track of the rascals.” - “JT found the necklace.” . “You did?” cried Jackson, in surprise. “Yes. Here it is. I will hand the case to you, and you ; can turn it over to Mr. Watkins,” said Phil. able to restore it to you. going: 4a4 the SA ad ‘House till later, Jackson took it, snapped open the case and saw that the diamond necklace was there. “ “Lord, what a relief to me to, get this back!” said the broker. “Here, take it, Mr. Watkins. I am overjoyed to be Now, Phil, tell us how in creation you got it away from those men?” “By a lucky accident,” said the boy broker, who then told how he found it lying in the road after the robbers, aided by the stranger, had gone on their way. “Accident or not, you have done me a great favor, Phil, and I shan’t forget it.” “That’s all-right, sir. I am glad to have been able to render “you a service. Now I will take my leave.” ' “Don’t be in a hurry, Farrington,” said Mr. Watkins, mn shall be glad to have you remain to dinner, How did you, come here from your place?” . “On horseback.” “Pll have your animal looked ufter until you are ready to de art.” Mr. Watkins left the room to attend to the matter, taking the diamond necklace with him to hand to his wife, who had. ‘ not been told of its temporary loss. Phil, left with the two brokers, who decided to. ‘postpone wee: with entered into fede sa | BROKER. “Jackson told me that you had branched out as a broker for yourself,” said Paxon; “and that you began operations by a clever option coup.” “Whatever Mr. Jackson says about me is all right, I guess,” laughed Phil. “Some of the things I said to you were not so agreeable,” smiled Jackson, “but I’ve taken them back, you know, though I still think you are rushing things by starting out in a busi- ness that you have only an imperfect idea about.” “Well, I hope to succeed just the same,” said Phil. . “T hope you will,” said Jackson. “If I can help you in any way don’t fail to call on me, and I will do what I can for you. The blow-up between us at my office is a thing of the past. We are now good friends again as far as I am concerned.” “Tm glad to hear it. I always liked you pretty well, Mr. Jackson, and on the whole, you treated me white. I was in the wrong on the occasion you refer to, and I am glad to start in again with a clean slate,” said Phil. “I suppose you’re not doing much, if any, regular business yet?” said Paxon. “No, sir. I am patiently waiting for a stray lamb or two to come my way.” f “Wouldn’t a full-grown sheep do as well?” chuckled Paxon. “He might be more profitable. At any rate he’d be welcome, All is fish that come in our nets, you know.” “Our nets is good. I see you regard yourself as one of us.” “Why not? A boy broker, even if he’s the only one in the Street, has a right, I take it, to claim fellowship, with. the fraternity. a “T suppose so. Phil told him. “By the time you’re twenty-one you may have mon enough to buy a seat in the Hxchange. I'll help initiate you.” “What do you do to a fellow?” “We hand him the third degree.” “What about the other two?” ° “Oh, they are understood. We never have time to admits ter more than one.” “Do you makea fellow ride the goat?” grinned Phil. “No, we get his goat. ” “You chaps won’t get mine for I haven’t any.” How old are you?” f “You'll have one by the time you apply for initiation, ea a mustache, too, quite likely, or the makings of one.” ‘ “All right. perfectos,” “Are you a smoker?” “No, sir. But my visitors are, aS a rule.” “Tl: give you a call. You're in the Otsego oun: e “Yes. Room 614. Here is my card.” Here Mr, Watkins came back and the subject was shacied) Shortly afterward the gentleman of the house took his guests upstairs to the sitting-room, and Phil was introduced - to Mrs. Watkins and Miss Rosina Watkins. The young people paired off by themselves, and when din-, r ner was announced, Phil took the young lady down to Lai table.’ Phil remained till nearly nine o’clock, and made such favorable impression that he was invited to call when he came down to the neighborhood again, His horse was brought around to the door and he took his. leave, well pleased with the‘reception he had received, His folks were up awaiting his return, and. it was nearly eleven o’clock, a late hour for them, when y turned in after hearing all about his initial experiences as a boy broker, er CHAPTER VII. PHIL’S FIRST CUSTOMER. Phil arrived at his office about one on Monday and found a bunch of mail awaiting him. There were a number of letters from people who had seen his advertisement in the papers. One of them was from a lady who asked him to call on her. She signed herself “Miss Rynders.” . As she gave her address as No. — West Seventy-second ra street, Phil judged she must be some one Who had money to invest., — ve ive He wondered if he would be able to do any pisiness with her when she saw how young he was. He put: the letter in his pocket and proceeded to answer his and os other correspondents; wanted formation about stocks. who were out-of-town people, rp AS tae a If I’m around then You call and see my den and have one of my ~ “he had ees of the bunch he took up the wi ai
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=e ‘report and studied. it tied ‘awhile, after which he looked over the ticker tape to see how the market was running that day. He found that L. & De was going up and he decided to take a flyer on it. ’ He went to the little bank and bought 1,000 shares at '80, on margin. Although Phil wasn’t aware of the fact L. & D. was in great demand, and the little bank had some trouble in getting even 1,000 shares. Its representative bought it in small lots and finally re- ported that he had filled the order. " Other brokers were bidding for it in the board-room, .or rushing around from. office to office looking for it. Broker Tyson was shart on the stock 5,000 shares, and he was in a great sweat over the fact. As he knew he was not over popular in Wall Street he began to suspect, when he found that nobody he applied to by aon they had any, that. a job had been put up to squeeze m He had squeezed a number of brokers himself from time to time, but he did not like to take his own medicine. While wondering how he could get the stock before three he thought of Phil, the boy broker. “Tll ask’ him to buy it for me and nobody: will suspect ‘who he is getting it for,” thought Tyson, reflectively. He rushed up to the Otsego Building and into Phil’s office. . “Got any L, & D, shares?” he asked, not expecting the boy had any. “T’ve got 1,000.” ; “Want to sell the block?” “Not particularly.” . “TH give you 80 1-2.” .., “Nothing doing.” » . “Vl make it 81 and give you an order for 4,000 more.” ; “No. The stock is scarce, I’ve been told, so I intend to hang ‘on for a higher price.” _ “Well, if you won’t sell go out oe buy me 5,000 shares. I ‘must have them to deliver at three.” ‘ ' “Put your order in writing and sign it, then T'ltattend to it.’ Tyson pulled a pad out of his pocket and wrote his order ‘Seventy-second street station, wig out. “Shall I have them delivered at your office C. O. D.?” “No. Have them sent to my bank. I'll go over and make: arrangements with the cashier right away. Get a hustle on for I must have them.” Phil put on his hat and started out to find the abate He had got a customer at last, and he wondered why Tyson didn’t look around for it himself and save paying the commission. He didn’t wonder so imveH when, after an hour spent call- ing on brokers. he failed to find any of the stock. “ve had a dozen or more brokers running here after that stock,” one trader told him. “Seems to have’ been cornered by some combine, which means a boom in the price. You'll Figek' trouble getting any of it.” “Looks like it,” said Phil. } - “Who do you want it for?” ~“A customer.” Pret Seas “Who is the broker?” ) “ “Myself.” ee “Yourself?” said the iroker in some surprise. gore “Yes, sir. There’s my card.” “Oh, you’re that boy broker I’ve heard about. to be doing some business. anything.” eat via didn’t do anything I couldn’t afford to’ pay iithige rent and lose my time. “The opinion I’ve heard expressed about you was that you were a young fool with a little money and expensive ae of your own importance.” “What's your opinion now, that you have seen and talked with me?” “T guess you are all right in your way.” - “My folks and my friends think I’m all right, so I am not “worrying much about how others size me up. Sorry you can't help me out. Good day.” - phil dropped “in to see Paxon next, but he was at the Ex- change. ; He asked ‘hs cashier if he had any L, & D. and found he had not. ‘Then he went around to see Jackson. ; “Hello, Phil. Take a seat,” said that trader, when Phil's ccessor in the \office had shown him into the aueba ay 3 ve You seem Nobody supposed you: would do ES La Inandsoinely — in a house gown lee in well, began De BROKER, “TI came around to see if you uaa any L. & D. you ed to |sell, but I suppose you have not.” “I have 3,000 shares, but they’re not for sale just now, Everybody is looking for the stock and under such conditions nobody is over anxious to sell, except at an advance én the market. The price has gone up to 85 this morning—three points., You are trying to get in'on this thing too late.” “I am trying to get the stock for a customer.” “Oh, you are? Got a customer, haye you?” “Yes, sir, and he wants 5,000 shares of L. & D.” a “Five thousand, eh? He is some customer. How did you + hook him?” : ss “He blew into my ‘office of his own accord. # “Tm afraid you won’t be able to fill his order.” “Looks like it. I haven’t got*hold of a share yet, and I’ve been nearly two hours :on the job.” “I'd like to help you out, but you can’t expect me to sell my block at anything near the market price. I believe it will go to 90, and I intend to hold it for that.” “You're right, Mr. Jackson. Nobody is giving anything ¢ away in Wall Street.” Phil spent another hour without result and then he went around to report to Tyson. “So you couldn’t find a share?” said that broker, glumly. “Ne, sir. It is now quoted at 87, and nobody who has any will let @ go at that.” “Tm afraid it will go over 90 by three and I will lose a roll. e got to deliver those shares at that time, and as I haven't oe them I’ll have to settle at the market at least.” “Tcould have got 3,000 at 90 when it was ruling at 85, but I don’t believe the offer would hold good now.” ; “Well, consider the order I gave you as: cancelled, Ill have to take my medicine, I suppose.” Phil left feeling that his first customer had not proved yery. productive. However, he had the satisfaction of knowing that he was eight points ahead on his deal, which he had not expected to out half of that. At four o’clock he locked up his. office and started to call on Miss Rynders. He took a Sixth avenue elevated train and got off at the ‘When he reached the number he found it was a handsome four-story brownstone house, and he rang the bell. Pa “Is Miss Rynders at home?” he asked the maid who, came to the door. “She is. Who shall I say wishes to see her?” “Mr. Farrington. Take my card to her,” said Phil. He was shown into the parlor, which was in a kind of twi- light, owing to the heavy curtains that shaded the windows, er the far corners being almost dark. a The room was elegantly furnished’ with modern furniture, among which were several expensive pieces of Chippendale antiques, and other valuable articles of the same sort. A heavy chandelier hung from. the center of the ceflling, supplied with both gas and electric fixtures. y The walls were hung with many portraits as well as ex- Rengive paintings. A magnificent piece of drapery divided off the back part of the room, which probably was a library, The maid came down and took Phil back into that room and then he saw that it was a library, supplied with hand- some bookcases filled with volumes on two sides, except where a rosewood roll-top desk stood. — The bookcases appeared to be of the Chippendale order, with smaller antique ones between each of them, the whole producing a fine effect on the artistic eye, ts Bronze and marble busts of distinguished men in science, art and literature stood on top of the bookcases. There was a large steel engraving of Washington Irving's home on the Hudson, an old engraving of the attack on ase Bunker’s Hill and-the burning of Charlestown, and two or. three other similar subjects, all in black and white. ~ BAN a - A magnificent tiger skin rug, with head compiete, was in the center of the polisned floor, and the furniture was. the - most expensive library style. : Phil was tremendously impressed by the evidences of wealth fens around him, for he was not used to such things. nd While he was taking in his surroundings the lady appeared we suddenly and with hardly a sound. ie “Mr. Farrington?” she said, die. regarding him ‘ pariously, ‘ es, ma’am. Are you Miss Rynders?” es,” said the lady, who was easily fo: years of age and fe,
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10 : A BQRN BROKER. “T received this letter from you, in which you asked me to call with reference to giving me a trial order. You hinted that you contemplated making a change in your broker,” said Phil, with the utmost politeness. The lady looked at Fail's ecard, which she held in her hand, and then at him. “Pardon me, but are you really a stock broker?” “Yes, ma’am.” “A member of the Stock Exchange?” “No, ma’am. I am not old enough to jobtain ies bergiie there, I am, in fact, the youngest broker in Wall Street.” “So I should judge from your looks, I sent for you because {L supposed you were a broker of age and experience, and could handle my business. I intend to make a change, and I thought I would try a stranger, for reasons of my own. I am afraid you will hardly do. I am sorry to have put you to the trouble of calling, but——” “That’s, all right, Miss Rynders. I assure you it was no trouble at all. I regret that. my youthful appearance does not inspire you with the confidence necessary to secure your patronage. It would mean a great deal to me, for I am just, starting out to make a success of myself. It will take time, of course, but I have no doubt of succeeding in the end. I will not take up your time further, since you do not care to do business with me,” said Phil, moving toward the door. “Do not be in-a hurry, Mr. Farrington. Sit nomen should CHAPTER VIII. J re , TROUBLE OVER MINING SHARES. S Phil’s entire capital only amounted to $20,000, of which i half was at that time/up with the little bank on the thousand — shares of L. & D. It was, therefore, impossible for him to make the purchase- 3s of the 5,000 A: & B. shares for Miss Rynders so as to capture | the whole of the commission on the order. ~ f The market price of 5,000 shares was $350,000, and he only had the lady’s deposit of $50, 000 and his own $10,000 to swing the deal. t He couldn’t borrow anything on the stock until he had paid z for it in full, and then he would have no trouble raising $200,000 on ft, é ’ Even if some kind friend advanced him the $200,000 to » help him out he would still be a matter of $90,000 shy of the — purchase price. bes Clearly he must hand the order over to some broker who had money, and divide the commission. * He guessed he could depend on Mr. Jackson to do that for him, so on the following’ morning he presented himself at Jackson's office, Pe “Round again, Phil,” said Jackson. “How, did you make Fy out with L. & D. yesterday?” “T didn’t make out at t all, and the order was cancelled.” USL “That’s too bad, and it was your first oustomien. (0) re) 8 “Oh, I've got another, don’t worry.” ta. Bea “Have you? How much of a one?” i Hid “Tf you had a number Jike her for awhile you'd think: ‘of retiring a millionaire.” kee like to talk with you, if you can spare a few mome / “My time is entirely at your disposal, Miss Ryn Phil, taking the chair she pointed out. “Tam interested in the fact that you are the youngest broker in Wall Street,” said the lady. “Isn’t it rather unusual _ for one so young as you to embark in the brokerage. busi- fs,” said ~ negs?? « “It's a she, is it?” laughed Jackson. “How atch oi P ei order did she give you? A hundred shares of some stock on ~ cc it is unusual, and because it is unusual I expest to the usual margin?” 4, “Not at all. Five thousand shares.” ‘ i “Come now, you're trying to put it over me, aren’t you?” : “No, sir. I’ve got her order for ihe purchase of 5,000 A. & B. at the market. I’ve just cashed her check for $50,0( Here’s the money just as I got it from the bank, Feast yo te eyes on that package of $1,000 bills, all new and every one alike as peas in a pod. [J may only be a boy broker, but ’m going to make things hum in Wall Street before I grow. whiskers,” ‘Jackson stared and then congratulated the boy. Raayte » “That's a customer worth having,” he said. - “Bet your Mfe she is. Unfortunately I haven’t the | money to swing the: deal so I want you to help me. I don’t ask y, hs toloan me any money, Just put the deal through for me ai divide the commission. . If you really want to help me on my feet here’s the chance. Tl agree to put all my business in here until I have made | money. enough seas carry my ‘own orders. What do you ect aed “Glad to do you the fav carry the stock for you. “TI presume you have the money to carry on the puisindsa? bat I should judge that brokers require a good .deal of money iy to enable them to swing their customers’ deals, that. is, when 80. many people speculate on a marginal basis.” © if ey “They do, when they haye a large number of customers on ji their books; but they always hypothecate the shares after _ paying for them, and charge the customers with the interest on. the ninety per cent. balance. They can carry about $100,000 worth of stock on $30,000 of their own money.” Miss Rynders asked Phil many questions about himself, and as he was quite frank in his replies, she drew from him a pretty clear idea of how he stood. ‘Hoe told her how his folks lived on a farm in New Jersey, hear Crystal Lake, and how he was taken by’Mr. Jackson into is office as messenger three years since. “TY have friends living on Crystal Lake—Mr. and Mrs. Wat kins, I dare say you know of them?” said Miss Rynders. “Yes, ma’am, I took, dinner with them and brokers Jackson and Paxon on Saturday evening,” he replied. “Indeed! You are acquainted with them?” said the lady, - interestedly. - “The acquaintance was quite accidental, ‘and came about R through my recovery of Mrs. Watkins’ diamond necklace, “which was stolen Saturday afternoon from the two brokers: I have mentioned.” ' Phil then told Miss Rynders about the hold-up and what “followed it. As he finished the tall,) old-time clock in a corner chimed ‘the hour of six, “Dear me, I have kept you here considerably over an hour, Mr. Farrington,” said the lady. “I have been so interested in your talk that I quite forgot the passage of time, Really | Stock and held it subject to his qrder. ean have taken quite an interest in you. Will you dine with me?”’ Phil wrote Miss Rynders to the same effect, With pleasure, Miss Rynders, if that is your wish,” said| That day L. & D. went to BB, ha poi eee to consid about ii ie fe é ‘ i ; 96, i The lady said she would be delighted to have his company,| On the following day it went up ‘and as it loo! as she usually dined alone, for she lived by herself, in the| Shaky at that figure, Phil suspected tha tg sndieats behind -big house with half a dozen servants at her command, includ-| it was selling out, so he ordered the littl ank to close hi a butler, who was employed by her brother for twenty- | out. ve years, and after his death had continued with her. |, It was lucky he Bole for next “morning the price dr So phil dined tete-e-tete with Miss Rynders, and during) to 90. Ea xt he meal she said. that she had become so much interested in| im ein ms ro going to aA him as aie broker and Bee how e would be able to execute her commissions. i After dinner they adjourned to the library, where she gave| . Phil was in his reading Wall Street n an order to buy 5,000 shares of A. & B. at the market, door opened and in walked Miss Rynders. — was 70, a nded him her elie beak shows 000 to ret I’m glad you came down to see us den,” he § ook 1 Mp: brokers’ offices i g wy but nia iil. I'll ‘etee. the doposte and’ ti. the commission slide 1 t ee necklace,” said Jackson. “That’s kind of you, but I.am not asking you to do oe Vl make $625 out of it Rey Nay, and Ill be satisfied with that.” “No, you shall have all the commission, ‘for it’s ‘your first: customer to pan out, and you'll always oii Sa that fact after you’ve become a real live broker.” “Oh, I’m a real live broker hah Stick a pin in thie! “ad “see if I don’t jump.” a Bs Jackson laughed and then took’ the order fee ‘Phi. i Te Later he notified the boy. broker that he had bought: ‘the’ By’ Saturday it we
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A BORN “you'll be served as weil here as have given your deal my special atte “ruling at 71 3-8.” ¥ * *T saw that it closed yesterday ae ra sa hoped it would advance the other eighth, You may now sell it for me. -I usually make quick deals. I have found that it does not pay to hold on too long. It costs money in interest. I am. always _ satisfied with small profits,” said Miss Rynders. ~. Phil filled out an order for the Rale of the stock and sbe signed it. “The stock is now ; the shares, Phil. - *“T will wait,” she said. . He ran around to Jackson’s office and found that the broker _ was at the Exchange. He went over there and sent word to Jackson that he ~ wanted to see him. “My customer has ordered the sale of the A, & B. shares. Get rid of them quick,” he said, as soon as Jackson appeared. . “All right, Phil. I guess I can get them off my hand before the’ Exchange closes,” said the broker. He hurried back to the board-room and sold the stock to five brokers at the then ruling price of 71 1-2. z ea 2 ay Pech his office and fold spi Rynders that her e statement he. ren- gure. che orraad to 7i 1:2 in as thi over $5,000 by the dered 6 her, “and she cleared some’ “i, eed nt on” wouldn't take any commission “at all on the pocketed the entire $1,250. a week after his return from the farm he had a 2 wit 250, which raised his capital to $37,000, ~ named Mudgett. acs He had two rooms, one ‘nt “which he used a8 his private “ office, while, the other was his counting-room, ot. belong to the Hxchange, and he; had . ho oe Sn Peta is i ‘ett did. aie, Mi eet to speak of. e bucket-shop: system. 5 > could buy. of sell as low as ten shares of any, stock | well enough, e, and such orders he did not put through in the 35 ee took Sesel tied on tthe hte soin, L his profit; a stock eabiine joint it ed the part of the banker. a 4) in his favor was ‘that he oe eer that ne ie ew. ; ag received an ertee tes buy 100 « or more shares of} r sell that amount, he executed it as a regular broker , for he didn’t care to. take too many chances, in the Monday following the. closing out of Mis: ‘@al Mudgett walked into Phil's office and introduced himself. He wanted to know ig ee ‘boy broker had any Erie shares. sale, ie its nf: h S visit, for he eee ed ‘bis isd was merely bluff to excuse suppose the boy had any... as ; d, however, that Miss Rynders had brought down of Brie when she called on Saturday 1 at. the market. A aeiy\ When ‘ihe went out ‘to sell that trader told him old on to them, as the indica- as they would go. * several’ points in a day or two, sons which he gave, so Phi) didn’t offer 6. stock, but ack B e in, as we mentioned. y many, shares of Hri you want?” anes Phil. aye you got any?” said the broker. e got 100, but, ou’ i hee to. give ‘more ‘than the “TE you will wait here, Miss Rendon, I will run out and sell i Tt won't take me over ten minutes,” said Broker |’ “The office opposite Phil's 8 was occupied by a- cheap ‘broker | Jot of. Reatomee for whom he bought and sold|on at the Curb. m he met Paxon on the street ; _ BROKER. pet gi ae at. the big_ offices. ae lati, but.as I want the money I’ll sell the whole thing for ; $2,500. You couldn’t make $500 easier. What do you say to taking it?” “Why don’t you go down on the Curb and sell it for 30 cents and save the $500? A penny saved is a ta earned.” “T can’t spare the time now.” ~~ “Rather sacrifice $500, eh?” * acter “Yes. Will you take the stock?” “No. I’m not dealing in mining stocks at present.” : “Why didn’t you say so at first?” said Mudgett, angrily, “What's the difference when I said it?” “Bah!” said Mudgett, jumping up and getting out. went out. ‘He went down to the Curb and font some excitement cs there.’ To his surprise he discovered that Pewhatted Mining had ~ taken on a boom and was going at 50 cents. “Gee! I ought to have bought those 10,000 shares of Mud- gett. Tl go back and see if he’s got them yet.” " Entering Mudgett’s office, he asked for that broker. * “He's out,” said the bookkeeper. “He ofiered me a block of Powhattan Mining half an hour ago at 25 cents, and I came in.to get the stock. “Tf you wait I'll send and find out about it. to catch “All right,’ ” said Phil. y name is Farrington. “My office is across the caniieant If Mr. Mudgett says it’s all right, send the certificates in to me and I’ll give you the. cash ae he them,” . The bookkeeper called up the office boy, whose name was” +a bunch of certificates of Powhattan Mining. i “Here’s the stock,” he said. “I want $2,500.” 5 ‘Phil looked the certificates over, then went to the safe, ae His employees: consisted of a. bookkeeper, who actos as|the money and paid it over to the boy, taking his Beni hier, ‘and an. office boy, who acted. ‘as: messenger and | for it. ifteen minutes later Clarence returned. ie want that stock back,” he said. “Here is your, money. hil was just going out to see how Powhattan was comin, “What are you talking about?” asked Phil, thoveh he knew - m talking about Powhattan Mining.” hat about it?” ms want it back. Here’s the money you gave me for it.” ; You’ ‘ve got an awful nerve to come in heré and all the money. | thé stock back that your boss sold me.” _ aad, oe in| “There was a mistake.” ay fa “What mistake?” “The stock belongs to one of our customers and he ea us not to sell it.” “T can’t help that. He *phoned you too late, Mr. Mudgett 8a. ag customers a square deal as far as Se uch ata’ on the} will have to settle with him about that. I -won’t give you the.” | stock back after buying it. What do you think I am?” ; “The bookkeeper told me I. must get it back.” é “J don’t care what your bookkeeper said. I’ve nothing te ; Phil laughed and shortly afterward he put on his hat and Mr. Mudgett. went over to his bank a few minutes ago and I may be able Clarence Cummings, and sent him out with a note to Undgoteg Twenty minutes later Clarence walked’ into Phil's ome” with es Cte ae do with him. Go back and tell him he ought to know better Aor | Rynders’ | than send you on such an errand.” “I won’t go till I get the stock.” : “Then I'll have to put you out.” Phil went to the door and opened it. “Now, then, oblige me by getting out. up,” he said. “Give mo that stock!” cried Clarence. “The stock belongs to me. Get out.” “I won't get out.” ; the: ae had supposed. A ‘st ruggle ensued and Phil found he had a job on his hands. man, who had been sent for by the tenant next door to. take charge’ of a thief who his cashier had caught in the’ act of stealing a age of money. : Sa pine followed the policeman down the aorta ¢ into Phil’s office, and seeing, the bth exccshcon? bers 2 call this disturbance about? he ite © cause of the disturbance, © : nd on the Laas Ar should rat Cl “T’d like to see you put me out,” said Clarence, aggressively. : PB ms grabbed the stubborn. youth, but he found him stronger I’m going to lock x The racket they made attracted the attention of a potiee: 38g
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A BORN BROKER. “Don’t you believe him,” protested Clarence. “He started _ the rumpus himself.” “Officer, my name is Farrington, and this is my -office. Oblige me by running that lad out. I don’t want him here. He belongs in the office opposite.” “He won’t give up the stock I asked him for,” said Clar- ence. “I was ordered to get it back. Here is his money.” Phil explained the whole matter, and Clarence was obliged to admit that the stock had been sold to Phil, but he said it was sold by mistake. “What have I got to do with the mistake? The transaction was put through in good faith and [I shall keep the stock.” The policeman pushed Clarence and the crowd out of the - Office. Phil followed, Jocked the door and started for the elevator. As he stepped into one cage he saw Mudgett*step out of another that had just come up, and start in haste for his office. CHAPTER IX. PHIL MAKES A HAUL OUT OF THE MINING SHARUS. Phil weht on to the Curb and saw that Powhattan Mining had gone up to 75 cents. “As a had been it for 25 cents he stood to win $5, 000 if he sol It locked good, hawevdy: to go still higher, so he” was te no hurry to sell. ' He began making inquiries as to the cause of the boom and found that a valuable lode of rich gold ore had been uncov- + ered in the mine, and that the stock was advancing rapidly in er “Goldfield. 4 ey He: remained watching the continued rise of the stock, and Ss at one o’clock it was up to $1. When it reached $1.15 at half-past one he commissioned a ¥ Curb man to offer the 10,000 shares in lots to suit. ; .. “The stock went in two blocks and Phil cleared $9,000. ‘ “ , “That's a pretty good day's work, I guess,” he told himself ' as he went to the Empire Cafe to get his lunch. There he met Jackson, oe and another broker seated Bb? ‘at a table. pith “He was invited to join them and was introduced to the other trader, whose name was Wood. - .QPhil told them about his quick deal in Powhat an Mining. “You put it over that fellow Mudgett in good Shape,” said son. “You certainly are a very clever young man, Phil. yOu keep, on you'll have a roll as big as a house.” “My toll has been growing at a lively rate since I left your ice, and I haven’t trimmed a lamb yet. So you see the mbs are not a necessity after all,” said Phil, ee “How do you know but your Powhattan was. bought by a ier -number of lambs?” ; *T don’t know. All I know is it was poileht in 5,000 lots - by two’ brokers.” When Phil returned to his office he found several. lbtters on the floor. They were from people who saw his advertisement in one} of the papers and wrote asking him if he issued a market letter and if he did they’d like him to send them a copy, or ' put them on his mail list. There are a lot of persons who write the various brokers for market lists, but they have little intention of doing any Ge business with the trader. --. It'is a waste of postage stamps and clerical labor to a¢com- SES, aindate them, but it is not an easy matter to spot the grafters, ' for one never can tell who means business and who does not . Until they have been tried. ates Phil was reading the last letter when Broker Mudgett burst aries “ie on him. “Qh, you’re here at last,” he said. “I’ve tried to find you - half a dozen times and your door was always locked.” : “T’m here now. What can I do for you?” said Phil, cheer- WS fulty, pee sytney SG have that Powhattan stock back,” said Mudgett. ; .,“My bookkeeper sold it to you on your own statement with- a Ne my knowledge and the sale doesn’t go.” “Wasn't my statement right? Didn’t you offer it to me for 25 cents?” fe Ea ds but you wouldn't take it then. n office the deal was off.” ‘it. I told him that if you said it was all right to ‘send certificates in to me and I would 0 within half an hour and I paid over the agreed pr \ After ae your “Your bookkeeper sent you word that’ I was ready to ‘ake : pay for them.” Sane did. sister. Then} “Why, the idea!” ms came pre in bein spc oe ey 9: and de tested Nellie. manded the stock back. Of course, I -wouldn’t give it to him, particularly as i found out the price had jumped up on the Curb. If there has been any mistake it is on your side and it doesn’t go with me.” “I tell you my bookkeeper had no. orders to sell the stock and I insist that you hand it back. I am willing to pay you $1,000 for your trouble and return your money.” “No, sir, it’s too late to come in here now about that stock. I’ve sold it.” “You've sold it?” roared Mudgett. “T have.” “Then you must get it back.” “Don’t talk nonsense.’ oa “I'll sue you for’ the difference in price that you bought it — for and what you sold it for.” se . "All right. Go on and sue me if you think it will do you. — any good.” : “You’ve swindled me out of $10,000.” He “Look out that I don’t sue you for libel.” k “Bah! You—you—” ; Phil waited for him to go on. Instead of which he jumped up, kicked the chair over and went out, slamming the door after him. : “He'll be down on me for the rest of his life. Well, I can’t help it. This kick of his is only made because he learned ~ too late about the boom in the stock.” ae Next day Erie jumped to 42 and Phil sold Miss bebe 2 100 shares. Ab “As she had given him her order to sell at 37, he entidned Hee her to the extent of $500 by holding on to it a few days. ve He might have notified her that he had sold it at 37 and: — rf kept $500 himself, but he wasn’t doing business that way. ; Some brokers would have done it and have been legally - eh within their rights. 5 Most brokers would have sold it at 37 anyway, according to orders, and the purchaser would have benefited. te When Miss Rynders received Phil’s note explaining how ho © had made $500 for her, he rose greatly in her estimation, and she decided that he should do all of her business after that. She sent him word to hold the $5,200 he had received for her stock and credit her with the amount on his books. Pages. also thanked him for taking so much interest in 5 ge airs. In a postseript she invited him to dine with her on the following Sunday, if it was convenient for him to do so. et As he had written his folks that he was coming down to «© spend Saturday afternoon and Sunday with them he didn’t — know what to a -as it was a matter of business to him to. keep on the r nt side of Miss Rynders. 4 Finally he the lady word by a messenger that he had promised his father aid mother to go to the farm for Sunday a wanted to’ know if she would change the date to a week ay. She replied by the messenger that the following Wednes day would do as well, and told him neyer to slight his paRtots on her account. Having nothing on hand he left his office at noon on’ Sater x day to get the train in Jersey City, and in due course he reached the village and found the buggy vale for him with — his sister Nellie in it. iw “T’ve brought you another present; Nell,” he sata he a “What a good boy you are! You must be making lots of money.” “I’m piling it up fast. .When I was down. here two weeks” ago I was worth just $20,000. I’ve more than doubled that - since, and have got a dandy customer into the bargain.” ~~~ on OMe “My gracious! You'll be a millionaire one of these days,” “Maybe so, if my luck holds.” ~ “T suppose you haven't forgotten the rest of the family?” © “Certainly not.” : Pe “What have you got for me?” “Don’t he so curious. You'll see it when I ‘deer my suit case. ” * ‘They stopped at the cross-roads store to. exchange a few eri words with Ed Parsons. — “Haven't had any more hold-ups, have you, Hd?” said Phil lgughingly.. “No; things have béen quiet. since you were here. last, es re- plied the storekeeper. “Got a New York ae bas Y you?” ° “Yes; I bought one especially ‘for you,” “Good boy. Have a cigar?” PY gs “No, thanks. You know I don’t smoke. Give it to 1 She's the only one in the family who——” — aoe Aren’ t you awful, Phil Farrington?” P
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A BORN BROKER. fs eee ater 2 See ae a ER AS OTE Phil and Parsons laughed and they drove on. The boy broker received his usual warm welcome, and the presents, which were in the jewelry line, were distributed and admired. After dinner on the following afternoon Phil ventured to pay the Watkins family a visit. He rode over on his horse, but was disappointed on learn- ing that Mr. Watkins, his wife and daughter had gone out ‘for a ride in their automobile only a short time before he arrived. So he kept on along the lake shore road, intending to stop again on his return and see if they were back. The road led around to the other side of the lake, and then through the hills that bordered the south side. ‘In the middle of the hills was a romantic glen, which at that time of the year was filled with wild flowers. Phil decided to go on there and gather a bouquet of the flowers to present to Miss Watkins, if he saw her later, or leave at the lodge for her, with his compliments, if he didn’t have that pleasure. The boy broker enjoyed every ininute of his ride to the glen. He was an expert horseman, being accustomed to almost daily rides before he went to Wall Street. He used to ride to the country school he attended, nearly three miles from the farm, while his sisters went in the buggy, driven by Nellie. As he only got a ride nowadays when he went down to the farm he got the most pleasure he could out of it. ‘He turned into the hills and finally dashed down into the glen and reined in. ‘Tying his horse to a tree he started: for the place where the prettiest flowers grew. . Before he had gone a yard he felt a hand on his shoulder, ‘fap turning he looked into the muzzles of two revolvers, ‘presented by two men whom he recognized as the chaps who held up the two brokers two weeks before. aa CHAPTER X. PHIL AND THD HIGH WAYMEN. “Well, young fellow, pass over your watch and any stray pills you have about you,” said one of the highwaymen. “We ~ have been appointed as collectors in this district, and have decided to do the work up brown. Don’t move, please, for I’m nervous, and I might accidentally pull the trigger... In that case you’d get a bullet between the eyes. Hold up your hands and I’ll help myself to what. you have in your clothes.” Phil saw he had not the ghost of a show to resist, so he ‘raised his hands, much against his will, and the speaker went through him, while the other man kept him covered with his gun. ‘When he had been cleaned out of his watch and a tow dol- lars, in bills, the men took him in among the trees and tied ‘him to one, gagging him with his handkerchief. Hardly had they finished with him when the noise of an ~ automobile was heard coming. Around the turn of the hills came a handsome car at a} ‘moderate pace. It was the Watkins’ car, with the owner on the front seat and his wife and daughter on the back one. “~-One of the men stepped into the path and hailed the rich agente. “How far is it to the lake?” he said, as the car slowed down. - #Not far,” said Mr. Watkins. will come out on it.” 8 4 spoke the other man appeared, jumped into the car val ae clapped his revolver to his head. “Hands up,” he said, as Mrs. Watkins uttered a stifled shriek and > “Follow this road and you es the girl a cry. ‘Phil saw what was going on through the trees, and he - retognized the Watkins family. He made a strenuous effort to free himself ‘aha succeeded. The cord that held him snapped and he pulled it loose. Tearing the handkerchief from his mouth, he picked up a stout limb and started to the rescue. - The fellow who had help up the machine and asked how far it was to the lake now had his gun pointed at Mr. Wat- ‘kins, while the other was taking his watch out of his pocket. Phil darted upon the former and struck him down with ‘one blow, which knocked him insensible. . "Picking up the revolver, Phil covered the other chap and or rdered him to throw up his hands. Taken by surprise, the man wavered, but neant business - sullenly obeyed, yey a Reed that the é} 18 “Get his‘zun away from him, Mr. Watkins,” said Phil. The gentleman lost no time in doing so. “Step out of the car,” Phil ordered the rascal. He did so. “Now, Mr. Watkins, you find a piece of cord at the foot of one of the trees. Get it and tie the fellow. If he makes any resistance I’ll shoot him.” In five minutes the man’s hands were secured behind his back. “Tf your wife and daughter are willing to remain here a little while we will take these fellows to the village yonder and hand them over to the constable. They are the same men who held up Mr. Jackson and Mr. Paxon two weeks ago and nearly got away with your wife’s diamond necklace,” said Phil. “T think you and Rosie may remain here until we retumn, my dear,” said the gentleman to his wife. “We won't be away very long. If we leave these men here they will escape and do more mischief.” Mrs. Watkins and Rosina got out and began to thank Phil for the great service he had rendered them. Phil told them how the men had held him up and robbed him just before the car appeared. “They tied me to a tree, but made such a poor job of it that I managed to free myself in time to go to your aid,” he said. “That is my horse,.Miss Watkins. You might take charge of him until your father and I get back.” The two rascals were put into the back part. of the car, and then with Phil keeping an eye on them, Mr. Watkins: started for the village. When they reached the village they stopped at the one hotel and asked where the constable lived, Phil explaining that they had two prisoners for him to take charge of: j ; The hotel proprietor sent his son with them to point put. . the constable’s house. ; That official was sitting on his veranda with several men, Phil called him to the gate, pointed at their prisoners, and told him the facts of the double hold-up in the glen. ee “We want these fellows locked up, and we will appear against them in the morning at whatever hour you say,” ho said to the officer. “That gentleman is Mr. Watkins; who - lives on the other side of the lake. My name is Phil Far- — rington, and my father has a farm on the other side, not far from the lake. Iam a Wall Street broker. Here is my card.” The constable called on two of the men to help him: get the prisoners to the lock-up, and told Phil that they would. spe brought before the justice at ten o’clock next morning. f Mr. Watkins then took the car back to the glen, where’ ue got out and the ladies got in. The whole party then returned to the Watkins pesitiinces Rosina Watkins regarded Phil as quite a hero and insisted z on calling him one. ) Phil stayed to tea and remained until nine, when he took” his leave, after telling Mr. Watkins that he would come over about half-past nine next morning in order to accompany him to the village. When he got back to the farm he surprised his folks with his story of the trouble at the glen. “Seems to me you are having all. sorts of adventures when — you come down here now,” said his sister Nellie. Bs “Sure I do, sis. The country. is so slow that I have to — stir things up so I'll know I’m still alive,” said Phil. i “My dear boy, you might have been shot when you attacked that man with only a stick in your hand,” said his mother, — who did not approve of her only boy taking such risks. “Why, you wouldn’t have a coward in the family, would you, mother?” ’ “Of course not, but you must always be careful of yourself.” “T suppose you remember the first time I got shot, don’t you?” “Why, no. ing her eyes. rata “When I went to the village some years ago and bought a ‘ pound of birdshot for dad,” grinned Phil, “Aren’t you awful!” said Nellie. ag “That joke is.so old it has whiskers on it,” said Phil. “Well, good folks, Ill have to stay over with you to-nrorrow, © as I have to go to Richville Village with Mr. Watkins to press the tharge of highway robbery against those two ras- _ cals. You did not remark that my watch chain was missing.” “So it is,” said Nellie. “What did you do with it?” — “The ruffian who went through my clothes took it with 1 wateh and six dollars in bills. I told the constable he would find my property on the chap I knocked senseless. I sup-— pose the authorities: vill, hold on to it as evidence against 1 I never heard about it,” said his mother, open-
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‘A BORN a ne + - ee ene men and I won't get ‘the articles back until they have been convicted.” oF “Well, let’s go to bed,” said Farmer Farrington, and to bed they all went. - place and put his horse up pending his return from the village. _ While waiting for the car to be brought around Phil put in the time with Miss Watkins, and found her as charming as ever. . : Mr. Watkins, his wife and daughter and Phil went to the village in the car, and were directed to the office of the justice, which they found surrounded by a crowd. : Pag justice held court Ain the large room adjoining his law office - The- public were admitted to the space outside’ the rail, _ which was not large, and it was jammed on this occasion, the - overflow standing cutside. Phil and the Watkins family were admitted through the ~ justice’s office, and conducted: to seats inside the railing, where they attracted lots of attention until the constable - brought the prisoners in. The charge was stated to them’ by the fustice and they Pleaded. not guilty. Phil was called to the chair on a sised! platform beside, the justice, and after stating who he was, told his story, as He identified his watch and chain and bes ee ee from Ar, i is _ Mr. Watkins followed him and told his: bey. ‘His wife and daughter merely corroborated ratat os said. 5 Their. united testimony was sufficient for the justice to re- mand— the prisoners to the county jail, and that closed the proceedings. ' Phil took: lunch with the Watkinses, and ‘die: ihe after: noon with ‘Miss. Rosina. Tt was five o'clock when he ‘got home. ‘Next thorning he took an early train for Jersey es and reached: his office about ten. dig. 728 : There were a dozen or. ‘more letters awaiting” hin” -Oné was from a hotélkeeper up State namied Smith, and ontained a bank draft’ for $1,000 to cover the margin on the feat chase of 100 shares of X. & Y. stock. ~ “Oustomer: number two,” er Phil. “They're. coming Blo wily. T suppose this Js my first real Jamb, and I must treat / him’ well. e wants me to buy the shares at 60 .. Let me ‘see how the stock closed yesterday.” if gone , down to 58. “Good enough. My customer will have an advant points he didn’t. count on because his letter has en lying unopened for twenty-four hours. Had the price gone up two points I should have felt bound to stand the loss of $200 x myself. The only way ‘to run business on the right basis is’ to treat. one’s customers squarely. Make them have confidence 4m you and they'll stick by you. They. say Tyson is not over 2 particular about shearing some of his lambs. If that is so I wonder he keeps enough of them to make things go. I don’t know m ch about Mudgett, but I wouldn’t care to specitlate in his office: “He certainly tried, to work me, but he didn’t suc- eéed worth sour pickles, He thr eatened to sue for for 0,000. I guess he must have changed his mind,” ~ Phil didn’t trouble Jackson to help him out with ‘Smith’s rder, for it only took $5,000 of His own money to swing it, dhe had $46,000 to call SOND aed pith called on several brokers and finally found one who had _ keveral hundred shares of the stock. He bought 100 shares and ordered it transferred to Smith. hen he wrote Smith that he had got the shares for 58 and t he held them subject to his order. s incidentally added that the price had gone up two and ‘quarter points, * ees ; That. afternoon he noticed that’ ais ne was going up kas he bought : 2,000 shares, giving ‘the order to Jackson, for the btock: was \ worth $90, and the deal took $180,000 to carry it. He put up $20,000. with Jackson ‘as margin. nT ursday he heard from hotelkeeper Smith, who told the w. & Y. shares" on his own judgment.’ put the fate of his eustomer’s deal up to him: ; ometimes accept. that responsibility, but they don’ } a rule, for they’re not paid to. take” care of thelr to as bustomers speculations. ae Pi as Smith well then his’ only omer, and he ae “willing Ne 0 the best. he could ge of ee ‘Phil, however, didn’t. ‘mind, | Next morning about nine Phil rode over to ‘the Watkins | _ He looked it up on the mar ‘ket report, ane found that it had} ° as you can get \party’s address and 1’ if call on him and see if people sometimes produces results.” larly interest, you,’ se BROKER. se ESSLESSEAEN 26ST UPI RENEE SIU ES Saturday morning X. & Y. was going at 65 3-8 and’ Fackson, advised him to sell it. ‘ Phil handed Jackson the certificate and told him 0 sell it . for him in the board-room, which the broker did, and after he got the money he sent Smith a draft for $1,000, plus his, profit of $700, with his statement enclosed. Ou the following Tuesday Phil ordered Jackson to sell his L. & M. shares at a five-point advance, it having gone up to” 7 95, and he added $10,000 more to his working capital. sets On the whole he was doing pretty well for'a boy broker. ~ . CHAPTER XI. THE RISK THAT PHIL TOOK. Py When Phil kept’ his dinner engagement with Miss Renders she told him a friend had advised her to buy 0. & H. for a rise of ten points. “Tm going to risk 5,000 shares, and I think you will do Be if you buy a few shares for yourself,” she said. Rees}, “You. think the tip is to be relied on?” said Phil. ; os “My informant is in a position to know, and I tag made ae money on his pointers before,” she said. Lega | “Then I'll take a chance on it,” said Phil. - ik ABS Miss Rynders handed him a check for $50,000 to cov et her margin, and next morning he cashed it and took the’ mo sine around to Jackson. “My lady customer has given me another order, This’ time. it’s O. & H. She wants 5,000 shares. Hand me your pad and. lll sige the order for you. Count the deposit while , Pe doing it.” As soon as the deal had been put through, Phil said he had another order to give him for’2,500 shares of the same stock _ “You're getting customers by degrees and’ they SPORE Ke be. good ones,” “Tl get there yet,” said Phil, who did not think it necessary to tell him that the second order was his own. The two orders embraced an outlay on Jackson’s | part et” | three-quarters of a million, less the $75, 000 margin,, } ish As soon as he got the shares he would raise about seventy, per cent. of their value, for O. & H. was, / gilt 886: vruling: at 102, Altogether he would only have to use’ $150,000 ‘of his: cowie capital, on which he would receive the current rate of ‘ine terest. for the time the deals ran. hee ae After placing his deals Phil, strolled down to the: xchange and met Tyson. “You're the chap I wanted to see,” bate the ieee . “What can I do for you, Mr. Tyson?” “Pve got-an order to buy a bunch of cape Proteprei It is not easy to get. -I know. where there are 2,000 shares, but the chap who has the stock won't sell it to.me. He hold 3 a grouch sentir’ me, and wouldn’t oblige ma under any. ¢ cumstances. ant you to buy the stock as close to BO: eis I'll pay you half of the customary com mission. It won't call ape the outlay of any of your mone; Haye the stock delivered C 0. D, at the Taylor Bank. | ‘Th cashier has orders to take and pay for it.” . “AM right, Mr. Tyson. Write out your order, wiht th Lege 1 oe sell,” : said Phil, ‘ tary: “He'll sell, ‘only . he Sravis a line at me.” ene Phil got the order and the name of Henry. Tobias. Tobias had an office on Broadway. He was a lawyer and he held the stock. as part of an entat he was attending to. He had applied to the court for an order to sell it and va fe going to a broker when Phil called and was admitted. % “T called to see you about a block of Roanoke preferred Oe stock, which I understand sh hold in trust. for the heirs 0’ ‘ ing of selling,” said Phil. { “How did you learn I had the stock?” sald the ane ia “Oh that was easy. The company’s books give a list of al stockholders, and when none of it is being offered at thi xchange it sometimes saves trouble to call on the secreta' and get the names of a few shareholders. ‘ Phil did not say that he had got his. information ‘that w because ‘he hadn't, but his words insenred: ‘it. ae “Who do you represent?” SP ifevuay anal What. are you ofering for ier ee ae a
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~* r) ee c + eh 4 Oe -. ¥ rt , et? ; 5 . aus : mi? A» BORN BROKER. ae (weet ce : Sa SSeS 56, WEE 8 SEF ees os Sa ; “Half a point above the market.” hah he is “Oh, all right, Miss Cody; don’t let me * Lemaire you to do “T want 51.” Th ek anything wrong.” . : “Are you speculating at présent?” at “Yes. Lam in on 0. & H.. Got $25,000 up on it. Had a Sly! that it would go to at least 112.” “You are worth $25,000 now and have it up « on 0. & 2” “Yes. It is true, I ‘expect to double my money. oe be get out at the station we’re coming: to.” “Why?” “T want to tell you something that I cannot, io here in this. crowded car,” she whispered, as she rose from her seat. The train was slowing up. “When it stopped they got out and she drew him toward ‘the end’of the station. ~*Y don’t. want you to: lose, your money, Phil, when T can /prevent it,” she began, “Promise me on your word: of: ‘honor ‘you will not say a word of what I am going to tell you. My “J promise,” said Phil, wondering what was coming. “ye “You must sell your 0. & H. as soon as the Exchange Sain: If you don’t you will lose every dollar you have up on it.” “How will I? It’s backed by a syndicate.” “T know it is—the Brady syndicate. But another syndicate — —a more powerful one—has laid plans to jump on -0.-& H. this’morning. _The Brady people are already in a hole, and — théy, will be ‘swamped before noon. O. & H., which closed: Saturday at 108, will open a little higher this morning. It, ‘may. go to 109,.but by noon it will be on the run, and wwouldn't be surprised if it were forced below 90.. That would ruin you, Phil, so take my tip and get out as soon as you can.” ‘ “This bear syndicate is Huntington’s, then?” pa “Yes; but don’t breathe a whisper, Phil, or it wor Id. abt me, Mr. Huntington “would suspect me at once, and if he © questioned me, as he certainly ‘would in case any slip hap- — pened, £ I conldn’t lie. I would have to tell him that I told — you. "That would mark my finish not only with him but. A Wall. Street.” “Miss, Gody, I thank you for your pointer. I will use it.” ou can irust me not to breathe a word of what you have. said... r would sooner, ‘los se every dollar I, own than harm, you, CM “I don’t think my customer will Ese thai? much,” ; “Well say 50 3-4,” said the lawyer, after.a little énsidera- tion; “but in this case you are to make no demand for gom- ~ mission from me.” ' Phil tried to get the stock-for 50.1-2 but the lawyer was firm, so he closed with him at that price. “Deliver the certificates at the Taylor Bank and you will, get your money on presentation of this order,” said Phil, * ; “All right,” nodded the lawyer and the boy broker took: his leave. “Another good morning’s work. I shall make $625 off this,|- according, to my arrangement with Tyson, and that will pay for my lunches for some time,” said Phil to himself, as he - started for the broker’s office to report the success of his} Mission. Next, day Phil got a letter from Smith, the up-state hotel | man, telling him that he was greatly pleased with the way he had handied his deal, and asking him to recommend some stock for him to buy. “Phil, ‘in reply, sent him a list of a dozen good active ehouned 0 choose from himself, but declined to specify any particular i me as a winner, + “That day 0. & H. advanced by slow degrees to 104, closing at Visa figure, x ‘Phil’ malted a copy of the meter report to Miss Rynders as soon as it came out, ' He had been doing this every business day since she became | his customer, - sey ee also added such information a time to time as ‘he ‘th ought would interest her. This attention on his part she awy appreciated. She had come to like Phil very much indeed. She saw he was a smart. boy, and she knew he wasa pice one. Her experience with awe brokerage houses had not been to her liking. | OF ai 1s 4 ‘Both were ‘yesponsible estab uhiionile but: tor all that: thelr Bee) methods had not ‘suited her. i? ‘ Although she saw that Phil was young and be potential: she perceived. that” ie had the right stuff in him, and she felt an interest in helping him with her custom. he Waree itt any rate she was satisfied he was as square as.a die, and r he entertained yery strict notions about honesty in business. _ When the Exchange closed on Saturday noon O. & Hy was p to 108. Gs yphil didn’ t £0 down to the: farm that day, much as he would rit Brees to see his people, not to mention Miss Rosina tkins, for whom he had taken a strong fancy, which, we ' ~*“T can, Phil) I am sure of it, ¥ou are a boy of rie at They boarded the next train and Teached eet peewee course. Ria ; a was pate 78 fitteen minutes ‘of ten pat Ph office. : He crushed: Antbo. Jackson's and got an interview. “Sell both orders you haye from me a ig samc ot. Ae Exchange,” said Phil: . ni ysis “AW right, my boy. T'll de it.” v “4 “Then sell 12,000 more shares and use pth the funds you. will, have at three on both rae nao) the boy broker, haatity ‘writing the order. : ee a * Jackson stared at him, Be Wwe ih BER npn “Have your two customers, faced about?” i “Yes, they’ ve faced about. ‘They deny think ‘the. stock, will go higher.” ‘ a “Well, it’s their funeral,” said Jabksbn; ‘putting on. his jae When the Exchange opened * Jackson ‘offered Phil's 2,500. shares and the 5,000 which the boy broker had bought for Miss Rynders. y say, was returned by the young lady herself. - Instead he went to a ball game, Mi Keg something ‘ofa fan. On Sunday afternoon. i salle on ie Rynders and stared tea? Yext morning, on his way down town’ in the Sixth avenue vated, he met.a young lady who ‘had ee been em-) loyed by Jackson as his stenographer, ; ‘She was working for a big operator ¢ “auch better wasen, 1 uncommonly good fr < ds. while she. was tt after she left Pht]. a lo sight of her, oe They were snapped up at 108 3-8. “I’m awfully glad to see you, Phil, sh Not more et gpae Iam to see y — Miss Cody. |. Then Bhi fe offered 12,000 more shares in small baie: ink Fe {the same price Ne \ They were taken right off the reel, for 0. & H. was buoyan A By that time Phil was in his office looking over his mat xs Yon te are ‘still with ae aloe 1 »- fand alternately watching the quotations as they came out on wey suppose wrong. I left him awhile ago,” » [the tape. “Did you? Who are you with now?” |. He was still there, very nervous and excited when his watch “*T- am in” business for myself.” ~ sree) noted eleven. “You don’t mean it,” ‘she said, in surprise. Nothing had yet happened i the Exchange and 9. j ido mean it, Don’t you think I’m smart erignst to branch was up to 109. oes gs uw i “If Miss Cody's tip goes wrt pe TL go to the iat so qui “or course, i think you ‘re, smart ee a ie ‘undertake any-}that it will make my head s' And worse than oe Baty ing.” Me be ruined forever with Miss Tyner for she'll lose ey y: Thank you, Miss Cody. % on’t believe you're jollying Ine,” ) dollar of her $50,000, and the $25, 000. she was. ahead when nf Geo rity not, Phil. I’ve always bad the best opinion of | ordered her stock gold without. i + r orders. I have | 5 something | ‘that no broker dares to do. I have taken a ok could do better. You ought to be able to pass | peyate chance, but I've done it believing it was right, En : 1 live tip. for old: time’s sake.” [risk I have taken for myself is my own lookout. It's the | or: breach | of confidence toward my employer, risk I have taken for Miss Rynders that sets my blood on — Partai tes | fire, If we win she'll call mea jewel; if we iosen-el Picnooatdentat clerk?” ap | don’t Imow what she'll call me. It won’t matter. uch ; ‘confidential stenographer, a neat of ae office Bas) Oe ‘be out of business, apt ths sahileiastgant will aaa my eye, in Rome! sh "have me in’ print.” yy
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A BORN BROKER. af was certainly the most strenuous moment in Phil’s young ; e = He had banked on the word of a girl who meant well, and re was in a position to know the facts; but suppose the situa- tion had changed since Saturday? Tf the contemplated bear attack failed to develop the boy broker was done. He would lose the $40,000 he had up on the 4,000 shares he had sold short, and the rest of his capital, $31,000, he would ' have to turn over to Miss Rynders, and this would leave her 7 $19,000 shy in cash, and $60,000 short of the profit she ex- ‘ pected to make out of her deal, as represented by her order. j No wonder Phil wondered what she would say if he met his Waterloo. As he stared at the tape he saw come out O. & H. 109 1-8. Tt was still going up, and he seemed to read his finish. Theh things changed. The ticker got a gait on and quotations began to come thick and fast, -"O. & H. 109, then 108 3-4, 1-2, 1-4, 108, and so on, steadily downward, as steady as clockwork. Phil uttered a whoop that roused the echoes of the corri- dor and began to execute an Indian war dance in the middle of his office, } The tide had turned—the slump was on—he would win out after all. 3 CHAPTER XIL “ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL.” f ‘In is midst of Phil’s crazy maneuvers the door had opened -adinitting a gentleman who stopped and stared at the boy as if he couldn’t believe his eyes. With him was a very pretty and stylishly dressed girl of fifteen. She fairly gasped at the exhibition the hoy broker was '- making of himself. —. epanenly Phil caught sight of them and ie stopped like a shot. — ~ “Mr. Watkins, Miss Watkins, this is an unéxpected pleas- “nee he cried poems a all out of breath and red in “ “Come right in and make your- T’ye been acting like a luna- the I know, ‘but lord, if you knew the cause of it you wouldn’t ‘wonder. Dear me,?I’m awfully glad to see you. Take this chair, Miss Watkins. Let me get a few breaths and I'll explain things. Excuse me a moment till I look at the _ ticker. Whee! It’s on the run for fair. Down to 99. I'll make a mint of money if this keeps on.” “Mr. Watkins was an old trader himself and he understood the ‘situation without a word of explanation from the boy. si The young broker's actions showed that he was in on the ‘vinning side of a stock deal that meant a whole ‘lot to him. He realized that he and his daughter couldn’t REVS intruded at a worse time. ; “There, now, I'll talk to you,” said the excited boys holding on. to the tape. z “No, no, not now, Mr. Farrington. You’re up to your eyes in business and it might mean a loss to you if we took up “your attention. We will call again,” said Mr. Watkins: ! “But I say—’ protested Phil, pinks Miss Watkins smiled back at him reassuringly, and then he _ door closed behind her and her father. : “Gee whiz! Talk about hard luck! To think of them com- ing in here and seeing me cutting up like a wild Comanche! _ And I like that girl. ‘again, and I won’t be admitted to her home again. Oh, what’s c the use? I’m done for there, and she’s the only. girl——” ' He pulled the vane toward him and noted that O. & H. was down to 96. i: He snatched up. his hat and left the office. ines The Exchange was in an uproar. “The brokers interested in O. & H., either on their own A eenant on their customers’ who were piling in selling orders 2S aceem were yelling like a bunch of friends. 4 Hverybody was- trying to sell, but nobody wanted to buy— ge “yet. . a3 The buyers, were holding back for the moment when the zy slump had spent itself. “Apparently that wouldn’t happebi ‘till somebody — came % the rescue, | gr EE Brady. syndicate had been swamped by the crisis, and after ervey in vain fe, stem disaster the members of it had looking appealingly at the Gosh hang it, she'll never look’ at me} thrown up their hands, wondering if they would ultimately escape going to the wall. Jackson was on the floor, but he was not doing anything beyond making an effort to close out a few selling orders. of 0. & H., which had been sent to. him. The slump suddenly ended at $0, when big interests com- bined and began buying to stop other stocks from being slaughtered in the mix-up. e Phil, standing at the door of the ante-room, detected the. change and rushed his order to Jackson to buy 12,000, shares ;— of O. & H. to cover his short sale of the same quantity. Jackson got the shares for an average price of 91. When he reported to Phil the boy went to lunch and ate a with mingled feelings of triumph and ‘gloom—triumph Dee cause he had won out: for himself and Miss Rynders: and gloom because he felt that he and Miss Watkins: WEEE: bia the outs. : It was half-past two when he reached «his office ane ‘sat! down at his desk, He began a letter to Miss Rynders. “Dear Miss Rynders:—I have done something in your in! a terest I had no right to do, but as they say the end justifies aa the means, I leave you to pass sentence on me, You gaye me — $50,000 to buy you 5,000 O. & H. on margin at 102, with orders to sell at 112. At your suggestion I bought 2,500,shares for my own account at the same time, This morning I got the. tip that O. & H. was going to slump around 109, so I sold your stock, with my own, on my own responsibility, without in- ~ structions from you. I had no right to do it and had things . ~ gone wrong I would have been ruined and you would haye lost a bunch of money. What you would have thought of me in that case I hate to think of. But things came out all right, thank goodness. After selling our shares I put the whole of the money coming to’ us both up on 12,000. shares” that I sold short on the logical conclusion that if the stock. was going to slump we would make by selling at the top price and buying in when the slump stopped. I sold at 108 3-8. tT bought in at 91. I have cleared $83,000—$15,000 on the rise © from 102 to 108 3-8, and the rest on the drop. You have made double that sum. So I will have the great pleasure of bring-. ing you back your $50,000 deposit, with a profit of fe 000. The boy broker isn’t so bad after all, is he? a) re “Yours sincerely, “PHIL Pusuneerow. As Phil reached for an envelope the door opened and it came Miss Rynders. © : She looked excited ‘and disturbed. “Oh, Mr. Farrington, I came down here as “fast as a taxi ‘eab would bring me. I got a telegram from the gentleman and save myself as best I could. What is 0. & H. going fo now?” Phil looked at the tape. “Ninety-three, Miss Rynders. It has been down to 90. o “Tt has. Then my deposit is lost. And you—how have | you fared? I shall never forgive myself for. causing you" a loss. T’ll make it up to you. Tell me——’ “Do I look like @ person on the wrong side of the market?” ty “You don’t look very happy.” i “That’s because I’ve lost the good opinion of a young. lady J think a let of; but read that letter I was about to oan you.” er Miss Rynders gasped as she read it. j fa “Tg this true, Mr. Farrington?” she said. e “Tt is, Miss Rynders.” , he “Then all I’ve got to say is you’re a wonder.” SMa “You forgive me for acting without your orders?” “Forgive you for saving me the loss of $50,000 and. giving me a profit of $166,000? Mr. Farrington, you are a jewel of -a broker.” Phil grinned, for she had salle him by the very Rig ve had thought she bipostiss ‘ and Miss Rosina. Phil néarly had a fit of delight. Before he could invite them to sit down the, hands with Miss Rynder, and expressing their Barrie at /meeting her there. Then Phil placed chairs for them and anwee Miss ‘Watkins ‘ were shaking % if she had overlooked his ridiculous actions peotioudel “Why; you foolish boy, I understood the cause of it ‘my father told me you were winning on some ‘stock de sabe keep quiet. He neta he cele ess: the sym
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A BORN. BROKER. He used to be a broker himself, you know,” replied the young ady. Her réply sent all the gloom fiying from Phil, and he felt quite happy. Mr. and Miss Watkins remained nearly an hour, and Phil told. them how he had made a big coup for Miss Rynders and himself out of the slump in 0. & H. The gentleman regarded the boy broker with added respect. after that, for it was no small thing for a person to clear $80,000 odd on a quickly executed market deal. b Phil collected the money next day and carried Miss Rynders up her share of the set CHAPTER XIII. THE FASCINATING WIDOW. * Bra In some way, doubtless through Jackson, the news got _ around Wall Street that the boy broker had made a bunch of “\/ Money out of the slump in O. & H. and the newspapers got i hold of the story and printed it, e;; The result was Phil was much talked about. » He was sitting at his desk one morning when there came ‘a ay on his door. ome in,” he called out. . The door opened and a handsome woman in half mourning - entered. ; a came to see N: Farrington,” she said. That is my name; ma’am. Be seated,” and he handed her “a chair, “My name is Mrs. Burnside. TI live at the Belleclaire Hotel. _ In going over the effects of my late husband who died some ~ months ago I found a lot of mining shares and I came down _ here to find out if they are of any value. As you are a _ broker, perhaps you can tell me.” ‘She opened her bag and brought out a bunch of sartinteot Aphich she handed to the boy broker. . Phil looked them over and was surprised to see that they , represented Jumbo stock, the richest mine a the: Goldfield district, then riling at double its par value of $10. ch certificate had a value of $2,000, and the lady had ten of them. Laps "They. were made out in the name of John Burnside. .. Apparently they were all right, and the lady was to be ‘ congratulated on her discovery. “When did you find these certificates?” Phil asked her. “Yesterday afternoon,” “Where?” - _ “In a suit case In which my iapbaata kept some ola clothes.” “How long has your husband been dead?” said the boy, ob- serving that his visitor was in half mourning. _ “& little over ten months.” _ “And yesterday was the first time you examined that suit pevcase?” _. “I looked into it a short time after my husband died, but a when I saw a suit of his clothes which had once looked so well on him I had not the heart to disturb them,” she said, _ raising her handkerchief to her eyes, ‘ Be . “Pardon me for calling up painful recollections, but in view of the fact that these certificates are very valuable I won- _ dered how you could have overlooked them so long.” ¥ “Are they really valuable?” she said, naively. ‘ - “They certainly are. Haven’t you ever pisulae of the eee Geld and Silver Mine, of Goldfield?” She shook her head. , “Did not your husband tell you “at any time that he had. this stock?” “No. He never confided any of his business to “me,” “Your husband was pretty well off, I presume?” h, yes, he leit some money—a few thousand dollars, in- uding a life. “insurance policy—but unfortunately I have’ een very, very foolish. I know so little about business mat- rs,” she cast a half shy, half g00-go00 look at Phil, “that I easily taken in. A lady friend, in whom I put the great- confidence, induced me to invest most of my money, oug. her, in stocks, and I lost it, so that now I am much ed ‘in he able to emai poor, I might say—and, I t bee, T will not be able to remain at the hotel and dress myself ve been accustomed to do, Unless that stock, which you _is valuable, is sold.” i ‘You need not sell it all, madam, by any means. One of ertificates should bring you in $2,000,” said Phil. much as that? Is it possible!” and she clasped her ith a little gurgle which the boy took for sudden joy. good of you to tell me ‘its: actual value,” Ba said, with Ja young fellow like me can do it is to stick to the Thgltt looked: over the certificates while his mind was busy thinking. — 1 a most bewitching glance at the boy broker. “I’m such a credulous thing that if you had told me the stock was worth hardly anyihimg I would have believed you and sold it to you. at your own price. What an honest young broker you are! Oh, if only I had some one like you to, consult with. Some’ one on whom I could rely like a dear brother,” she went on, gushingly, and bending her most fascinating glances at Phil. “And now,” said Phil, “you want me to sell one of these certificates, I. suppose?” : “I think you had better sell. them all,” she said, sweetly, — “Why that will bring you in $20,000 in a lump, ‘and with so much money in your possession you might again fall-a victim to some swindling woman unless you consulted me before you went into any investment,” said Phil. ; : “But don’t you think it would. be better to sell them and invest the money in something that would pay interest?” she said. “Why this stock pays a good dividend, There must be’ ; considerable due on it which I shall have to collect for you _ before I offer the certificates for sale, or sell them plus the accrued dividends, the amount of which I shall have to find out at the company’s transfer office here in Wall Street. wy The lady’s face suddenly changed. “Perhaps you had better not sell them right apes) she said, with some hesitation and embarrassment. , “No?” said Phil, surprised at the change in her. im “Please don’t be offended at me. I’m such a changeful thing. I really hardly know my own mind for five minutes. You see how necessary it is that I should have some kind of ¢ @ guardian to be a check on my silliness,” she went on, sweetly and smilingly. “I think if you would ‘keep these certificates awhile in your safe for me and advance me, say, half their value now, I should prefer it.” “Half their value would be $10,000, not speaking of the accrued dividends.” “I did not suppose they were worth so much till you told : me. Do you think if you collected and kept the dividends it would pay you for your trouble?” mm “J think it would, but I wouldn’t do that. I oon duas my business only on business principles. I don’t want a dollar more than I am entitled to by the established rulessof Wall Street. I am trying to build up a business, and the only way. thing.” “You must be awfully smart to have an office of your oe aoe You don’t look more than twenty, at the outside,” } *“T am only eighteen, ma’am.” fire “Ts it possible! ‘You are smart, aren't you? Well, do you think you could advance me so much money? You will keep the certificates, of course, as security, and I will sign a or anything you ask me to so that you will not feel that I have anything the advantage of you.” “T suppose I could do that,” said the boy broker, slowii, “T haven't loaned any money on stocks yet, but I could do it, of course. Still, as you would have to pay at least six ‘per P cent, for the accommodation I would not advise you to borrow iy more than you actually need.” Br “Oh, I don’t mind paying you six per eoirt.; you are so nice ; to me,” she said, charmingly. “Besides, I will have you nell: the stock in a few days.” Phil could not help wondering why she wanted half the) yalue of the stock in advance. She certainly was an odd little lady. Pon While he was considering the-matter he wrol dirs the are numbers of the certificate on a pad, and the name of John ces Burnside. ase y He looked at his watch and noted the time. ie At that moment the door opened and a man, well dressed, | good looking and smooth shaven, came in. © races The lady turned and looked at him. y “Well, sir?” said Phil, tearing off the pad and putting tt sack in his pocket. “TI beg your pardon, I have got into the wrong office,” sald. the man. “No harm done,” said Phil. ‘AS. he turned his face away he fancied the man made. : some kind ef\a sign to his fair visitor. ar The mau went-out and for a few moments the. boy broker “I shall have to send out for the money,” he said. “Will i= eReHHe. me while I go next door and send for a baus ea ats * she said. Frias Phil left the room, went next door “and. asked ermiasion to use the telephone.
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18 A _BORN BROKER, —= ae Phil called up White & Co., the Wall Street agents of the ; Jumbo mine. “A lady who says she is the widow of John Burnside, de- ‘hag eh, has brought me ten 100-share certificates of Jumbo, on whieh she wishes to borrow $10,000. She says she has s only just found the certificates among her late busband’s "~ effects. “He has been dead ten months. There should be un- collected dividends on the stock. I will give you the num- bers. Let me know what the stock is worth as it stands on i, fe books.” ‘“Hold the wire and I will look the matter up for you. By _ the way, who are you?” 5 “Philip Farrington, stock broker, Otsego Building, * ‘i Tn about two minutes another voice said “Hello! B “Well?” said Phil, “Tam Mr. White. Tell me the facts of the case,” Phil: did so. “Will you kindly hold that lady in your office till a repre-| over ten minutes.” “Yep, sir, Is there anything wrong about that stock?” asked Phil. 5 “Yd rather not say,” replied Mr. White. from here will explain. ee minutes and you will oblige me.” “T'll do it,” replied the boy broker, ringing: off. “Phe gentleman Phil returned to the office and told his visitor she would personality. ‘have to wait a short time—perhaps fifteen. minutes.” She locked a bit uneasy and the boy noticed it. -. fo pass the time he began telling her about the wonderful Tuck of the Jumbo mine. "Presently the door opened and two men eame in. ‘The lady looked at them in a frightened way. = “T am from White & Co.,” said the one in advance. “I should like to see Mr. Farrington.” 2 Re “That is my name, sir.” ages - “You telephoned our office about the Jumbo seal Tp this a lady who brought it to you?” ~ “Yes. Her late husband——” ess » The lady's eyes expantied with terror. , She rose and svarted for the door. e “One moment, madam,” said the man, signing to his com- : ane who stepped between the lady and the door. 5 “What does this mean, gir?” she asked, in a tremulous tone. re f “It means that those, certificates of Jumbo. piel you i brought here to sell or raise money on were stolen from their rightful owner last night, and unless you can satisfactorily explain how they came to be in your possession you will be arrested and taken to the Tombs.” ; aye lady ° mitered a seream and sank fainting on the floor. ¥ CHAPTER XIV. CONCLUSION, — Phil had expected some kind of a denouement, but not one that involved his fair visitor in such a serious charge. ‘He sprang forward, raised the lady and placed her on a | ghair in a corner of the room. _ hen he got some water and sprinkled her face. is this had no effect on her he bathed her Penne with it, used other means to bring her to. he succeeded, the two men making no effort. to n recovering her senses the dady. ‘began to’ indulge in) 2 sterical fit of weeping. n the meantime the man from White & Co., who “said is name was Sheridan, took up sa certificates of stock and ooked them over. He told Phil that this woman ae not the wife of the man who owned the stock. “Mir; Burnside is not dead. He lives with his’ wife and : family at the Belleclaire Hotel, on Broadway. “fi “This lady told me that she lived there,” said Phil. ‘Maybe she does, though I doubt it. At any rate her state- nt made to you about the bonds is false. They were ‘stolen some time last evening from the Burnside apartment 1a hotel, norning. He: immediately notified us, and ‘we ‘in turn’ ed the Curb officials. It was fortunate that p about them, for it saved complications. We: eady ‘to make a pantenston dn big baat th dy. f f : mie ll, mada . sentative from this office can reach your place? It won't take pearing lady should be mixed up in such a serious affair.” Keep the lady engaged for ten or} for with him. and Mr. Burnside became aware of his loss| born broker. A er Be le late husband who died ten months ago. right——- “You stick’ to that story, do you?” , The lady glared at him, a: “You assert your right to the ownership of the stock?" went on, “Yes, it is mine,” she snapped. “Very well, then you stand accused of having stolen’ prop Fyre erly in your possession, and under suspicion of ‘being th thief. Officer, arrest this woinan. Take her to the Tombs. and charge her as the receiver of stolen goods.” “You. will regret this, you villain!” said the lady, submi ting to arrest with the best grace she could. “I have friends’ who will defend me and punish you.” sae She swept out of the office, followed by the detective, . ~ “JT will take charge of these certificates,” said Mr. Sherida “and give you a receipt for them.” “All right,” said Phil. “It is too bad that so nice an a foe There’s a” “Oh, she’s one of the army of female grafters, When h man behind her in this, and he is the: thief. caught she’ll be held as his accomplice.” : Then Phil remembered the man who came “into the office a moment, and who he thought had made: her. som i signal. Phil described him as well as he could recall ais face | His deseripticn was subsequently given to: the police, ani the Man was caught. . i When brought before the magistrate the man and worn through their lawyer, waived éxamination, and were held the action of the grand jury. under $1,000 hail, each. This was furnished and they were allowed to go free. A week later Sheridan was attacked by’ three thugs on street one night and beaten 80: severely that he ape to taken to a hospital. His assailants were never au piied: The woman had evidently kept her word to get bea Phil kept a wary eye out for himself after that, fearing would get it, too, but no attempt was made to harm him He received a visit, however, from a stylishly dressed li who represented herself as a friend of ‘the accused wom She wanted to know what Phil was going to testify to before the grand jury when he was called upon. “Nothing more than the truth, madam,” he replied.’ “Won't you promise to be as easy as you can?” “Madam, I shall not say a word more than 1 have to ‘am sorry ‘she has got herself in such a bad box. I don’ | lieve she stole the stock, but I fear she knew it was 8 ‘| when she brought it to me. If de not intend to say w think. If i can say anything in her favor you may cou me doing it. You can ‘tell her she has my SYNOD: but 1 i can’t go baek on my duty. When he was” calle Horas: the ePand jury “he! made” testimony as light as be could, and failed to somagnes thing he was not asked about, The jury, however, found an indictment against en man’s accomplice. — At the trial Phil was the chief witness in the case. * He made some effort. to shield: the lady, and wa along by her attorney under: cross-examination, wher assistant district attorney handled him a bit sharply, ase ing in a caustic way, that the lady’s fascinations were mal him forget his duty to the State. In the end both prisoners were convicted, put the. lad off with a light sentence, an ‘received a handsome pair of sleeve buttons from anu admirer, but which he suspected wags the lady \ There is little more to be added to our sto Phil had already proved a succass in Wall ‘Street cud tually he demonstrated his abilities as a broker. In the course of, time he paid suit to Rosina Watk her heart, ana got her hand from her parents... 9: > Miss. Rynders remained his steadfast customer, hetped him with loan ; ‘to swing his deals for the who caine to him She ‘always avelaved ‘that he ‘vas not only a Ane oy Next week's fans will contain - ceramic HING; OR, ee OHUMS sah SINE
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The United States derelict destroyer Seneca, of the Revenue Cutter Service, which hag been on ice patrol duty hear the Atlantic steamship lanes, arrived at Halifax for coal and provisions. She reports the ice very slight ~ this year so far as concerns the transatlantic lanes dor Boston and New York. “I have had no reports of field ice at all,” said Captain Johnson. “We Have seen only three icebergs, and these were not anywhere near the steamship lanes. They were all north of latitude 44, and the steam- ~ ship lane is os and the difference of three degrees means 180°. miles. With prevailing conditions these icebergs should now be working northward again. On March 22 steamships reported two icebergs in the general vicinity of latitude 42 and longitude 50, and unquestionably these are two of the three icebergs that were north of 44.” 4 Baviecd is vilot ree se to the annual malletin of the International’ Aeronautical Association, blisheé in Paris. Of these France possesses 968, Great itain 376, Germany 335, the United States 193, Italy 89, Russia 162, Austria 84, Belgium 68, Switzerland 27, olland 26, Spain 16, Argentina 15, Sweden 10, Denmark Hungary 7, Norway 5, and Egypt 1. One of the largest timber limits deals ever negotiated British Columbia was closed recently, when Lacey & Co., Chicago, sold Lillooet River tracts to the Deere Plow mpany of Moline, Ill.) for $2,500, 000. The property was sold on a basis of $3 a thousand “feet on an approved y, showing the standing timber to be 70,000,000 feet, cedar and'fir, Its area is about 10,704 acres. Less fa a Teer ago the former ' owners —. 5 same limit Phe discovery of valuable minerals in the rock formation of Ulster County is announced. <A claim to a large section of forest land near the Ashokan reservoir has just been filed with the Secretary of State by William H. Burhans, of Kingston, N. Y., who says he has discovered gold, silver, zine, lead and copper in this town. The vein, or lead, is ‘described as “about 600 feet in width on each side of the tracks of the Ulster & Delaware Railroad Company, where tle detour around the Ashokan reservoir is now nearly ‘ll have no ditsoulty 4 in making the transit of the canal completed.” This vein is about 8,800 feet long and 1,300 : i] fered for its d N feet wide. The’ most sensational part of this discovery Sts ee See eee si will appear when it ig stated that in the deep rock cuts ‘through this ore bed made necessary by the tailway detour — d “|the material taken out was brought down to this city for 2 » . | ballast of new sidetracks here. Day after day this ore has | been dumped by the trainload in ‘full view of residents, i Mr. Burhans covers thig ballast in his claim. i al contemplates admitting the water into Culebra Cut y in October and the completion of one flight of locks ither end of the canal by that same date. The passage s then depends upon bas condition of the slides. f the year and, if this can ba decomiplisned: the Fram ne 7 snide tall and eet nig over "300 pounds, lifted a pound wagon the other “day on Broadway, Lawr ence,, Te Seay to ie Police ste aimee J. W, ibaa According to the inne given out by the National High- ways Protective Society, forty persons were killed in the | City of New York by street traffic during the month of — 2 April, as compared. with forty-three killed during the same month last year. The decrease was due to the drop in the es number of fatal trolley accidents from ten to four and in- wagon accidents from thirteen to twelve. The month, |however, was a record one as regards fatal avout acoidelits, twenty-four persons boing killed as against twen- ty for the same month last year. his figure was exceeded only once before, in June last year. Duritig the month of — April motor vehicles seriously injured ninety-seven persons, trolleys, thirty-three, and wagons thirty-six in the city. Of — the total twenty-two were children sixteen years of age or less. Of the twenty-four. auto fatalities eleven victims were | children. Trolleys killed three. children and one adult. a wagons nine ‘children and three adults. In the State w York, outside the city, ai ‘Yehie les were resp ‘ # aker’s horse, aE eh away, “a the eos and the was wie ane foe pshied underneath, At St. ei ares en 5 Williams, said to be an American newspaper the way home from the Balkan wat, has lost 9, 000 the disappeatance of a smooth-talking man he Paris who ‘introduced } himself as. Stanislaus Ber- hae Paris; slipped 0 ona Fae peel near the railway . He determined to sue the his ‘services. Instr ricting | Went to. Munich,
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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. THE BOY DIVERS THE MYSTERY OF THE SUNKEN ‘SHIP By GASTON GARNE (A SERIAL STORY) CHAPTER XXII (Continned.) Vadna gained strength, and.having partaken of food, she drank of the rich wine again. Her heart beat strongly. The healthful color returned to her cheeks. She declared she felt strong enough for flight. Already the smugegler’s wife had told her that at present there was no hope of her escape from the island. And that communication had led to another, which com- pletely thrilled, and yet did not surprise the young girl. The smuggler’s wife told her of the presence on the island of the boy divers and their comrades, old Dan and Drake, the man from the lost treasure ship. -To the mind of Vadna, it seemed that the hidden hand of destiny had some purpose beyond the ken of human wis- dom to divine in guiding her to the sea-guarded prison of her boy lover and her friends. Night came. The smuggler’s wife directed Vadna how to find the sea-cave in which her father had been a captive, though the young girl had no knowledge of that fact, or that her fathersyet lived. The woman who dared to serve Vadna against the will of the young girl’s mortal enemy was to supply the wants of ‘the fair fugitive clandestinely, if the latter succeeded in making the sea-cave her unknown abiding-place. With the coming of the night, Vadna grew excited and anxious. When the shadows were deep, she stole from the cabin and took her way according to the directions which the island woman had explicitly given ‘her. But the young girl had proceeded no great distance on the way to the subterranean. retreat when she became aware that her flight was discovered. , A shout rang out behind her. She turned and saw Captain Onslow and five of the men of the island. They were running toward her, and their ~ advance was made from the direction of the cabin whence she had fled. | The impulse for flight caused Vadna to bound away, thought it must have come to her that escape was hope- less. She fled on and on. Her speed surprised her pursuers, who put forth all possible efforts to overtake her. The race had continued for some distance, and Vadna saw with horror and despair that her enemies were closing up the gap between themselves and her, when she sprang forth into the open, and was discovered by Dick Cartland et and his companions. — Vadna Banik down | at’ Dick’s ea panting and ex- cored hausted, as the boy hero presented his weapon at her on- rushing enemies. “Halt, on your lives, or I fire!’ he shouted. The answer Dick received came in the form of a pistol- shot, and the deadly missile passed close by his head. The enemy did not pause. ‘Iwo of the most desperate ruffians on the island had sprung to the front. Onslow had offered a large reward for the recapture of Vadna. Cupidity stimulated the courage of the villains. They heeded not Dick’s command. The weapon in the.lad’s hand exploded. One of the But the detonation. of another shot was mingled with the sound of the explo- ar sion of Dick’s weapon and this time is deadly bullet ia leaders of the charging smugglers fell. grazed his cheek. “Shoot him down!” yelled Oasis and he and each of his followers leveled their weapons at the valorous youth. “Merciful Providence! the boy is doomed!” uttered Deems, in the cover, where as yet. he and Captain Liyan, ag the speechless castaway, remained. undiscovered. Tt seemed that Dick was immediately to become the tar- get for a fusillade, which must prove fatal to him. But, like a flash, Vadna regained her feet while yet the murderous command of Onslow trembled upon his lips. The devoted girl placed herself before Dick. Her slen- der form completely shielded him. Her eyes blazed, her | voice rang clear and intense as she cried: *Cowarda' Shoot if you will! capture !” “Fold, hold, men!” faisly screamed Onslow, for ihe” fingers of his rufianly comrades trembled upon the trig- gers of their weapons. The revolvers were lowered. Dick was respited. - He whispered an admonition to Vadna. treated toward the cover. Still Vadna kept between Dick and the enemy, and the fear of hitting her restrained their e fire. that the comrades of Onslow on this occasion were none — of the members of his faction. He could not, therefore, rely on them. , Their devotion to Onslow he knew full well. In a moment Vadna and the boy diver gained the chek Fee There the young girl saw Deems and ter of the timber. . his companions, For a moment Vadna stood rooted to the spot. Wild-eyed, panting, trembling, half-impressed with the conviction that she beheld one risen from the dead ——an apparition—she stared at her father. \ “ x ston et Wee I prefer death to re- — Then they re- si Meanwhile, Deems had noted with much dispetditered : Se ee OP es |
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rg E ovaie Lys sah ied t uhpe = ROCA ee PO) gee TR eR, neirts Aw a a ts om ag FAME AND Serene WEEKLY. He tried to speak. He scout to utter ae name. eof his beloved daughter. Oh! the joy he experienced when at that phen of re- union such as he héd scarcely dared hope for in this life, } y the power of speech was suddenly, mercifully restore] to|: him. The nervous affection which had caused paralysis of the organs of speech, having been brought on by exposure and _ suffering, had gradually subsided since the castaway had} become recuperated on the island. It se@med that the sudden appearance of Vadna had acted as a nerve shock, which had, so to say, revivified and set in motion the vocal organs. “Vadna!” he cried, and with an exclamation of joy the young girl sprang into the extended arms of her _ father. There was no time for explanations then. Deems exclaimed at once: “We must retreat! There’s no other way for us to save _ ourselves now, except by falling back to the settlement and _ calling on my faction to rally at once, defy the authority on Onslow and win the treasure of Sebastian, which you have promised us as your ransom.” The wisdom of the course was apparent to all. They began a*swift retreat. The enemy pursued. But an occasional shot held them somewhat in check. In this way tke fugitives approached the settlement. Observing the course they were taking, Onslow, im- pressed with the idea that they would soon be set, upon, be- came exultant. Tt was the almost positive assurance hick he felt, that it the settlement the capture would be made, that inspired him to press the pursuit less vigorously than he might ave done. The sound of firing had been heard in the smugglers’ village. As the fugitives entered the one iat upon which, in _ straggling line, stood the rude dwellings of the island en, the smugglers thronged forth. -Deenis saw his faction—the seeret band who meant to arn the captives’ ransom—had massed themselves at the entrance to the village. ‘The adherents of Onslow, not in the conspiracy for gold, ere scattered along the street to the waterside. There is likely to be a desperate fight here immedi- ly. The lady must be sheltered at once,” said Deems. CHAPTER XXIII. A DESPERATE BATTLE. ‘There was a cabin near by, and, directed so to do by eems, Vadna and her father enterdd it. Two of the smugglers who were in league with Deems entered the wilding with the castaway and his daughter. The door was closed.. The blinds were secured. There re loopholes in the wall. rs and Captain. Lynn,’ ‘whom the island men presented vit a earbine and revolvers, stationed themselves. y were prepared to. defend the cabin and, a neces- a siege. hecho thout all was sap and sontsion, ¢ At those openings the smug-| Coming in sight with his followers, as Vadna and. her defenders gained the town, Onslow saw the young girl and her father escorted in a friendly way to the cabin where they had sought refuge. : The smuggler dlso beheld his men place weapons in the hands of the castaway. The villain could at first scarcely credit this visual evidence. hend something of the real meaning of the unexpected scene enacted before his eyes, he was enraged and alarmed. | ~ “Treachery! Black treachery! There are other men in the village as Judas-like as the rascal Deems. But it shall cost them all their lives! I am not to be trifled with. Forward, men! Cut down the traitors! Death to Deems and all who support him!” shouted Onslow. Into the village he advanced with his men. Deems, meanwhile, had uttered a signal call. the moonlight half the population of the smugglers’ vil- lage had rallied around Deems. He had become the acknowledged leader of the revolt ofthe men who had pledged themselves to secure the gold of Sebastian. To Deems all his adherents fooled now for adviee a and orders. He was equal to the occasion. “Men!” he cried, “the crisis has come! Victory means gold in abundance! Defeat means death at the hands of Onslow! What care we for his private schemes since in the end he would rob us of our share of the profits. To the storage house! Every man fighting on To arms ! our side now will aid us to win the victory. The prisoners shall battle for their freedom with us. Forward all!” With a ringing cheer the conspirators charged for the storage house. But on the outskirts of the throng, in sympathy with Deems’ project, were men of the party who remained true to Onslow. Those men set up the yell of treason. Qnslow was soon among them. He sought to rally all — the men who were yet incorrupted by the conspirators. This was soon done. But the faction led by Deems had arrived at the storage house before Onslow was able to make any demonstration against them. - The guards of the storage house were true to the smug- gler chief. From the barred window old Dan, the veteran sea diver, Mark Seaworth and Drake, the sailor, looked forth and saw what was taking place. It was as light as day, almost, and the prisoners of the | storage house readily comprehended the meaning of the demonstration in the street of the village. The prisoners were thrilled, but. they experienced. fear as well.as hope. They had, that day, heard Onslow issue positive orders to their guards to shoot them down ‘rather, than allow them to escape. “Open the doors! tives!” cried Deems, ‘as at the head. of about one-half the men of the village, and with Dick Cartland at his Aes is he arrived at the front of the storage house. Six men ‘guarded the one door. ’ those weapons loomed up six grim, determined faces. cic hee stoutly asserted one. of the. oe ua be Continued), But as he began to compre- Under We are bound to release the cap- 21 Six leveled carbines confronted the rescuers, and behind = “We will not desert our post! You can’t have the pris:
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22 FAME AND FORTUNE -WEEKLY. FACTS WORTH READING FOWLER MAKES TRIP FROM PACIFIC TO ATLANTIC IN 55 MINUTES. Robert G. Fowler, the aviator, successfully flew from the Pacific over the canal on April 2% in a hydroaeroplane with a passenger, landing at the Atlantic side in fifty-five minutes. A picture was taken of the operator and machine in motion, The flight has frequently been termed impos- sible, on account of the air currents over Culebra. Fowler flew directly over the cut, and was able to carry out various evolutions despite wind obstacles. Leaving Panama Beach at 9:45 A. M., he cireled over Panama City and the canal’s entrance for while, then rose high and steered toward Colon, where he encountered a twenty-five-mile breeze. In continuing to Cristobal the motor suddenly stopped, after missing fire, through the gasoline giving out. Fowler suc- ceeded in landing with ease on a reef. The pontoon was torn, but otherwise his machine was undamaged. A SNAKE IN A CAR COUPLING. A large “gopher snake,” wedged, through some unac- countable manner, in a coupling of a freight car at the Oakland yards, recently, caused. considerable excitement and gave Daniel Hughe, inspector, the fright of hig life when, in trying to uncouple the car, he saw the reptile’s head about six inches from his face. The train had-come in from Sacramento and Hughe was preparing to uncouple the car, The coupling stuck, and he bent forward to ex- amine it. As he did so the snake protruded its head from the mass of iron. With a yell Hughe jumped away and called the other yard men, who at first would not believe his statement. “Come on and see!” said Hughe. “TI tell you, it’s alive!” Finally Inspectors Shirk and. Potter agreed to take a look, and Hughe’s reputation for veracity was established. The snake was killed. How the snake, di after getting into the coupling, escaped being smashed, and how it got there anyhow is a puzzle that the trainmen are trying to solve. 5-CENT PIE PROMISHD FOR THE SENATE. A strike is threatened by Democratic Senators because the price of pie has not gone down with the passing out of the Republicans. They will demand five-cent pie and five- cent coffee. The Democratic Rules Committee has lowered the price of soup to fifteen cents a plate, but lett pie where the Republicans put it. Senator Norris, a Republican in- - surgent, has joined the protesting Democrats. He thinks ten cents is too much for pie. The House Democrats _- settled the pie controversy two years ago when they came into power in the South Wing of the Capitol | by selling pie at ten cents in the House Babasine in the, Capitol, and - five cents in the House office cafe. 4ook the eue and reduced pie to five cents in the Senate _ office building cafe. eat in the Capitol, by charging ten cents for pie—that is, - for one ae ie rise e to tro! torts of Bes “The The Senate Republicans The discrimination against those who ‘Jan. 1; 1908 is a leap year, and July 29 is always { the same Poor Man’s Pie” and “The Rich Man’s Pie.” Pie is not mentioned in the new Tariff bill, but apples, peaches, guinces, cherries, plums and other things that go in good pies have been reduced from 25 to 10 cents per bushel. Senator Overman, Chairman of the Senate Committee on | Rules, which has charge of the Senate restaurant, promises : five-cent pie after the Democratic Tariff bill becomes a — law. “Any sort of pie—pumpkin, raspberry, apple, peach or custard, kivered pie, barred pie or plain pie—will be served for five cents a cut after the new law goes into effect,” said Mr. Overman, who comes from Rowan County, North Carolina, where the farmers’ wives know how to make it. The anti-tipping regulation was renewed by the Senate Committee. It will be enforced, the members of the committee say, but the colored waiters in the restaurant. have not been known to refuse a. dime or a quarter yet. A MATHEMATICAL PRODIGY. There is in the Asylum for the Insane at Armentieres, i France, a young man named Fleury, who is astonishing doctors and mathematicians by his phenomenal feats. of calculation. He is eighteen years old, was born blind, and it has been impossible to teach hive anything essen the Braille system of reading, which, however, he has learned very imperfectly, .From an early age, however, he evinced a’ singular aptitude for figures. By methods evolved almost entirely from his inner consciousness, but — supplemented by his study of the Braille method, he has attained a proficiency in performing mental feats. that would defy expert mathematicians. Dr. Desruelles of the asylum communicates to L’Encphale some of his patient’s extraordinary feats. He multiplied 625 by 825 in 4 ‘sec onds. He gave the eube root of 1927 in 9 seconds. Given a day of the week in 1912, he calculated May 22, 1908, as a Friday in 5 seconds. Asked how many seconds in 39 years, 3 months and 12 hours, he gaye the correct: answer, 1,238,587,200, in 1 minute 15 seconds. It is apparent | that ; defect of visual memory must complicate the methods em- A ployed by Fleury, and the rapidity of the result is thus the more remarkable, comments the Lancet. By studying the calendar he has evolved, unaided, curious and interesting laws which make hig finding the day of the week for a given date less wonderful than appears at first sight. Asked the day for May 15, 1911, he spoke aloud as follows: “Jan. Ag 1911, was a Bandar (he knows this by heart); Jan. 2. is a Monday, then May 1 is always on the same day as the. second day of January. In leap year May 1 is the same as the 8d of January. May 15, 1911, isa Monday. “i Again asked July 29, 1908, he replied as follows. “Jan. was a Wednesday. I know it by heart. July 1 is always. the same as Jan. %, except in leap year, when it is the same. é ite Pre as July 1—i. e., as Jan. ‘1. July 29, 1911, was a Wednes- & day.” It will be seen that Fleury can give the ans E perteely bie chmorsied if ae wished in such, a cas
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b CHAPTER II (Continued.) “No, no!” screamed Gertrude, rushing in front of her rother. “You shall not fight, Jack. I will tell papa about this. Mark is right. You spoke very unkindly to him.” Jack May was furious. “Get out of my way, you white-faced booby!” he cried, savagely. “Don’t you interfere with me. I tell you I’m - going to thrash that beggar.” . Gertrude clung to her brother’s arm and begged 1 him to - desist. “Lf you don’t let go of me, Pll hurt you,” gritted Jack, as he gave her arm a wrench. With a shriek af pain Gertrude sank Goad at the bully’ 8 feet. The sight fired Mark to fury. “Don’t you mind, Gertrude,” he ctied. “He is your brother and I hate to fight him. But he needs a good lesson, and I mean to give it to him,” “Oh, you do, eh?” yelled Jack, derisively. “Just fancy our doing it! T’llshut you up like a jack-knife,” The young bully motioned to his pal Stevens, who closed n on the other side. Mark was slighter in frame than either of his foes. But he was lithe and muscular and nick. Moreover, he was plucky. olding her aching arm. . She was a sensible girl, and it is dy necessary to, say that her prayers were with Mark. oS ack squared off in most approved fashion, and made 2 tremendous swing at Mark’s head. “3 ae the blow struck him he mig have felt it much. olored (iets danced before his eyes. He swore a tees ath and dropped to his knees. es approached Mark from behind; ae now ee Mark iad and brought his mate arm. emia Hike a flail, _\ His fist took Stevens under the ear. The young repro- Das turned half a somersault and flopped in the dust. ¢ was a startling surprise to both bullies. They had ver dreamed that Mark Morton had the ability to make ow fike that. Where the odds were. in his favor May, like all bullies; as as brave as a lion. When ay were aes him he oie an arrant coward, | FAME AND | FORTUNE WEEKLY. MARK, THE MONEY MAKER : --——OR— Sen HOW A SMART BOY GOT RICH Gertrude crouched upon the mossy bank by the roadside, ‘But he was ‘too proud to beg. 23 By ED KING (A SERIAL STORY) But he made another effort to cower Mark. , He rushed for him like a mad bull, throwing his arms» about wildly. Mark simply side- stepped and let May run into his right fist a couple of times. The result was that May sat down in the dust violently, with a black eye, a bleeding nose and a dizzy head. He scfambled to his feet and retreated some distanve, where . Stevens was sitting down rubbing his ear ruefully. Neither of the young rascals cared to return to the attack. Mark picked up his coat, coolly shook the dust out of it, and started away up the highway. His temples were throb- bing, and though he was a victor, there was a strange sad tugging at his heart strings. The unkind words had hurt more than ‘blows. ' But a soft voice reached his cars. It caused him to turn, “Tam glad you won, Mark. I don’t care if it was my brother; it was two against one, and it was not fair: T hope and pray you will get rich, and in my opinion a poor man is just as good as a = man any day,” In allhis after career Mark never forgot the thrill which’ those words gave him. His spirits exe with a arty bound. With a step he was by the side of the girl speaker. _ “Miss Gertrude, I thank you for those words,” he said, © with a tense voice. “Remember them I always shall, od you, too. We were schoolmates, and I have always felt” that you were my friend. Some day perhaps you. will not be ashamed to claim me as such, Tam going into the great world to make my fortune. Whether T succeed or not I shall never forget you.” Seavhs Gertrude held out her hand with a confident impulse. - “You will succeed, Mark,” she said. “Now, don’t forget. T shall be interested in you always. ef ; Mark clasped her hand a moment, and then tugned away. 2 Around the bend he went out of sight on the dusty high- way, That day and that incident marked ¢ a new era in his i life. For some miles Mark trudged on in the noonday. hae ae A new resolve had seized him: He was decided not to go | back to Westvale. ee He would send the money to Mrs. Price pe her board as — soon as he earned it. He preferred to seek new scenes. He was footsore and hungry. Mark did not doubt but that the rude occupants of ihe | eabin would share their meal with him a he @ Beer He passed a little cabin : fe in the woods, and the savory odor of cooking tantalized | | his nostrils,
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R4 FAME AND: FORTUNE WRERLY. He sat down on a stump e the roadside bay mopped his| true and my good friend. I eéufess that I am hungry and — brow. The heat was intense. The door of the shanty swung open and a man came out. He was singing a jolly snatch of an Irish song. He came down into the dusty highway at a swinging gait. “He was a broad-shouldered,. kindly-featured Ivish- man. His dress was rough and his manner perhaps a trifle , uncouth, As he crossed the highway he saw Mark sitting on the stump. His face lit up with surprise. “Howly mither!” he gasped. “Is that yez, Mark? Shure, phwativer are yez doin’ here?” “Mike Maguire!” ejaculated Mark, as he sprang up. it your” “Shure, an’ it’s not me ghost,” replied the Celt. “Do you live in that house over there?” asked Mark. ~ “To be shure I do. I have a good wife an’ five foine childers as iver ye seen. Divil a dhrop av liquor have I tasted these two years. Not since yez ate a good worrud for me to the judge in Westvale, me boy.” Mark recalled the incident clearly. It was a holiday in Westyale, and a great crowd wag on the streets. In the excitement there was a street fight, and one man received a blow which erushed his skull. Misther Ts Mike Maguire was in the crowd, but had not sititnakal s in the row. However, he was arrested and charged with the crime by a‘misguided officer. in his behalf and saved Mike’s life by identifying the real assailant. Maguire had been very sfetotl to Mark and now it was * plain that he was glad to meet his young friend: “Ah, Mike, I couldn’t see you hung for a crime of which _ you were not guilty.” “Shure, me lad, I’ve niver forgotten that. But what’s brought yez out this way? Yez look all fagged out. ‘Come wid me, an’ I’ll find yez a bit av something to ate an’ dhrink, ue yez kin do wid spine so poor as I have to give yea,” A lump rose in Mark’s throat. He grasped Mike’s hand, “and said: “T’m not going to deceive you, Mike. You know well enough what my station in life has been. Well, I may say that it is now even more humble than yours. I am penniless, out of work, and will soon starve unless I have a speedy change of fortune” Mike was aghast. He rubbed his eyes and sia “Mither Mary!” he repeated, crossing himself. “Phwat- iver brought ye to this, me lad? Was it the work of some -vilyan ?” “No, it was fate, ” replied Mark. “You know my father died and left only ‘debts behind him. The times are hard, and I am not able to get work. I have had to fenve West- vale, [ fear, forever.” Mike Maguire’s Irish soul was thrilled to its very depths. He spat on the ground and coughed, and finally _ sputtered : fee! jabers, lad, it’s a poor home I have, but, by the sowl av Saint Pathrick, yez are welcome to it feriver. An’ if Mike Maguire kin die fer’ ye, he’s the man will not shirk the job.” Bit Made eyes were sen RTS ae Tt was Mark who testified | | ee tired. I will accept your hospitality for one meal at your house. Then I must go on my way, for I am bound to seek my fortune, and,I shall find it.” Mike led the way to the house. Mrs. Maguire was’ a whole-souled Ivishwoman of the motherly type. It needed — searcely a hint from Mike and she placed before Mark — a plain but appetizing meal. 4 Never in his life had food tasted so good to Mark Mies a ton. Never in his after careet of success did he find friend- — ship that rang so true and clear as he found that hour. 4 It was one of life’s lessons to him, and he never found it — 4 in his heart to despise the poor and lowly. After he had partaken of the meal Mike lit his pipe and said : “Now I must go to me work,.lad. I hope yez igo be here x whin I come back to-night.” aye Mark gaye a start. i “What is your work, Mike?” he paliod, with sudden : interest. # ‘CHAPTER III. MARK GETS A JOB, ; “Tm afther taking me turn as watchman on the Magog drawebpides, lad,” he said. “It’s a good job for me, an’ 1’ doin’ well:” ‘pea “That is the bridge “Oh, I see,” said Mark, reetivelys across +h 1e outlet of the lake.” ‘ on. Ving: 3? Lake Magog was a body of water full nak) miles long. © It was, in fact, an inland sea. “ Towns dotted its shores, and Westvale hepa at its outlet ‘ was one of its principal ports. The drawbridge crossed the outlet and connected W yale with a town named Surrey. Steamers and lumber barges passed out of the lake into the river to Westy le, hence the necessity of the drawbridge. Mark was familiar with the place. interested in the lake traffic. Mike exclaimed that he seryed a twelve-hour shift on. the drawbridge, or from noon until =e It was ae time for him to go on duty. “May I walk to the bridge with you, Mike?” he as “Shure Pll be glad to have- yez,” declared the Trishm So after therein Mrs. Maguire Mark went away Mike. They took a path through the woods, and soon e out in sight of the lake. va On the. drawbridge was a little house. The acai was worked with a capstan, and one man could ea operate it. ‘ Mark aoedulpamed eee e the bridge house, who He had always bee Fate songsbings icant guides the destiny of mae) As Mark and Mike entered the bridge house they 8 Smith lying on a bench. He was very pale. “Mike,” he said feebly, “I’m awful sick. You'll han to get some one to take my shift to-night. Paps * ce get around to-morrow night,” : “Well, that’s too bad, Tom,” said the Sia cae Ins “Are yez able to walk home: oe Ae oe Sng
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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. 25 FROM ALL POINTS : : > Zapata forces dynamited a train on the Interoceanic - Railway, near La Cascade, Mexico, recently, killing many and wrecking and burning the train. After the explosion -the rebels fell on the passengers, slaughtering even those who were unarmed. This train was followed by a military train, which retreated to Otumba. A gigantie hydro-aeroplane has been constructed at Triele Sur Seine as a destroyer of dirigible balloons of the Zeppelin type.. It weighs in flying order 8,000 pounds. covered its first flight of thirty miles with three persons aboard at about the rate of sixty miles an hour. Its radius of action is 600 miles. The machine is able to carry a load of 2,000 pounds and ten passengers. It has two motors of 200 horse power each. “Three-year-old Marion Boyd, daughter of Mr. cae Mrs. Charles J. Boyd of Riverside, Conn., played a trick on her parents by wrapping up some pankbooks, jewels, a purse a corner. When her parents discovered their loss they ‘called in Sheriffeinnegan, who decided that a burglar must have entered the house with a skeleton key. Recently _the mother found the bundle and Marion explained. : Herman E. Janssen, a Los Angeles aviator, was behead- ed by the whirling propeller of an hydro-aeroplane at Oak- ‘land, Cal. He was assisting Roy N. Francis to start the eis had mounted to his seat when the mechanician started propellers, and Jansen, who had been holding the hine steady, was about to step to one side, when he lost s footing, and, throwihg out both arms, fell into the hinery. os vr, Macdonald of the South African Department of ‘iculture declares that it is now possible to grow a - “rainless wheat”—that is to say, a crop upon which no single drop of rain has fallen between seed time and har- ‘vest, It does not maintain its existence without moisture, all that is necessary \ is obtained from the deposit of evious season in “moisture saving fallows.” This would lean a great ‘boon for those areas where the rainfall is ertain and irrigation, for various reasons, impossible. aptain Georgia Orne, one of the few women skippers he country, is ready to put to sea with-her century old ooner, the Hiram. All hands, including First Mate James Orne, the skipper’s husband, and cabin girls, Mary Jane Orne, have signed articles for the summer's ing trips, which usually consist in carrying lumber ‘some Maine port to New York and returning with ~The Hiram wintered in the Mystic , River basin, n, and with a new coat of paint, new standing rigging an the other fay, and its contents in a doll’s dress and hiding the bundle in’ ‘machine, when he lost his palanee and fell forward. Fran-} The Manchester. Ship Canal, thirty-five and a half mileg long, has a depth of twenty-eight feet and a width of 120. - feet at the bottom of the Pues Tt has eight locks. It+ cost $35,527,490, and it carried in 1907 5,120,759 tons of freight.° The Kiel Canal, sixty-one miles jong, is twenty- nine and a half feet deep. It cost $40,000,000, and it carried in 1906-07 5,963,125 tons of freight. The Cron- stadt Canal, connecting Cronstadt with St. Petersburg, is only twenty-one feet deep. It cost $10,000,000, and is a work of great strategic and commercial importance to Russia: ‘There are no facts available as to its traffic and revenue. The Suez Canal overshadows all of these with its cost of $100,000,000, its depth of thirty-one feet, and its annual traffic in 1907 of 20,553,241 tons. As an en- gineering feat it sinks into insignificance by the side of the Panama Canal. George A. Lamassee, “the handsomest waiter in Boston,” has captured an heiress, Miss Nancy Redding, daughter of Michael J. Redding, a Baltimore traction magnate and President of the Demogratic Club of the Oriole City. The couple were married at the Boston Cathedral of the Holy Cross, recently. uamassee hails from Providence. He was a captain of waiters at the Folies Bergere restaurant, New York City. Then he came to Boston and got a job a month ago in the Copley-Plaza Hotel in the Back Bay. He waited on Miss Redding at the latter hotel, and it was a case of love at first sight. Though Mr. Redding, it is said, often told his’ daughters he wood rather they be wedded to working men than idle society youths, he gaye a gasp, *tis reported, when told of Miss Nancy’s quick match. He barely got here in time to attend the wedding, but he gave the pair a check and a blessing. Jack Redding, the bride’s brother, was best man. Lamassee will manage a restaurant in an amusement park partly” owned ie his father-in-law at Oil City, Penn. The President of the Republic of Hayti, General Tan- : crede Auguste, died at 9 o’clock P. M., May 3, after a brief illness. President Tancrede Auguste had occupied his office only since August 9, last year, when he succeeded General Cincinnatus Leconte, who met a tragic death, together with four hundred officials and soldiers, in ‘a fire’ which destroyed the National Palace on August 8. It was reported at that time that he had been.the victim of an intrigue, but nothing came to light to confirm: the theory. | The National Assembly was conyoked to elect a successor as Chief Executive. Four candidates will present their claims tothe office. These are Judge Luxembourg Cauvin, - former Minister of the Interior, and Michel Oreste, both of — whom are Senators; General Beaufosse Laroche, Minister © of War, and General Beliard. In official circles and among the general public the opinion prevails thet General Be- liard will obtain the nomination. Quiet has reigned every- where since the President’s death, but precautions. ‘against ig iv patches on some of the sails she was Eralee out} any possible outbreak were immediately ba pe General’ nau) the commander i in chief. SRM CG ea ms ed eter et,
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Nrtaxvun, Secretary gS Ag a a BRIEF BUT POINTED ITEMS © Phe’ steamer Washington Irving of the Hudson River Day Line, a new floating pleasure palace of steel and glass, with the world’s record in licensed passenger carrying ca- _ |. pacity, 6,000 persons, arrived recently from Camden, NJ She has a speed of 2314 miles an hour. ‘The boat has fifty oil paintings to illustrate living, his time and his werks. , In sight of hundreds who had gone to Garret Rock for _ the-day, Lawrence Gloor, nine, of 122 Butler Street, Pater son, N. J., ventured too near the edge, lost his balance aud fell thirty feet. He was mortally hurt. en minutes Jater, at almost ‘the same spot, Andrew Masker, six, of East Twenty-fourth Street, fell and was badly injured. Its regular meal, consisting of oné drop of milk admin- istered each hour and its hand’and arm so small that the} ¢ attending physician’s finger ring can be slipped over the am to the elbow, a tiny baby weighing exactly two pounds 4s being eared for by a trained nurse at the home of its parents, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Hills, No. 109 Chestnut Avenue, Long Beach, Cal. 4 i i John MacLaren, landscape gardener of the Panama Ex- position, has made arrangements to show yisitors what can be done in California to insure a succession of flowers throughout the year. The color scheme of each building “a will be studied by. MacLaren,’and the flowers that eee it will harmonize. One feature will be a field of twenty-five acres, which will be one mags of color for each month. - One month it will be solid blue, the next ved and so on. {the previous year of about $7,000,000; the unpaid losses All the flowers of tropical and: temperate zones will be . grown here in the open air from February, when the fair] spe, to December, when it ploses. . * } ’ “Phe ‘annual: ‘ashheap. of tho country” sa be ‘reduced to much smaller dimensions than at present within reason- able time, i in the. aeatbls of Mente Laat Emmet of the} State In room resounded with a medley of neighs, ing| the corner had aie moved nor uttered | what’s the matter? Why or oF report that the “ash-heap” of this country and Canada — accumulated during 1912 represented’a fire loss of approx- ee $225,000 ,000, about $9,000,000 less than in 1911, — and $2,000,000 less than the average for the past: five years. of ne large percentage of the national fire loss,” he says, “igs — ‘due to gross carelessness and negligence, and if it were — possible to punish by law all such proved offenders, as Tig done in some Huropean states, it would be of great benefit.” — The losses paid m New York State show an increase over being somewhat in excess of those outstanding on Dec. 31, — 1911. The total insurance in force at the end of 1912 was slightly more than $52,374,000,000, an increase over ae previous. year of about $4,300,000, 000, JOKES AND JESTS. Junior—I hear Brigg s got into a lot of trouble with that girl he was going with. Soph—Yes? How’s that? Funion—He married her, oh eS like ‘Mr. Jones. Mrs. avmuch-—He’ s dead. more men were Mr. J anya that ? wots First Ofte Boy-—I told. the Governor to look ab ‘the =| dark circles under my eyes and see if I didn’t need a half-— j day off. Second Office Boy--What did he say! Genie Office Boy—He said I needed a, bar- of soap. painting | or ets hein fies are sates you, painting. He—You’ve seen some of my: pictures, hen? She—No, but ¥ ve heard some ue your poems. | t The Innkeeper-— (making up a ets bill) The firs! time I made it 13 shillings, now I make it 17. Just cor and add it up, my dear, and see if you can get it His Better Half—Oh, why not let it go as it is? A ras, it 13 again. © . A school teacher in Frome, England, sent this Pathe of one of his pupils: oh deg to inform yon ; case: ‘requires pee attention.” The ek day th brought back this written request: “Mister, please 4 out of J im, as I ain’t got Pee ‘ Cae aL tnt Navty ar ‘The new school ma’am of a. 2s school’ was int ducing the “barnyard game” to the pupils di TeCess pote one winter, + Hach one of you,” plained, “must represent some barnyard animal or The children entered heartily into the game, and s b and other sounds in imitation of horses, roosters, ¢ pigs, ete. During all. this time one little fello e eacher asked. Bh Ue:
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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. _ a7 — LL —eeeeeeEeESESESEeEeeeeeom—m—=s—: After this they began a conversation which lasted until HEARTS AND DIAMONDS. Cyril became so sleepy he decided to go to his berth.. Fi The young man remained in the smoker, saying that he By Kit Clyde. Was not a bit sleepy. . “But you are yawning deadline: sir,’ said Cyril, - Carter, Blake & Co., dealers and importers of diamonds and other precious stones, were unusually busy at Christ- mas times. smiling. 2 speech, but answered: 2 They decided to employ some more men. : “Phat is merely a habit I have. I often yawn, but 1° _ Cyril Chester saw in this his opportunity to obtain a never go to bed before two o’clock, and that is two hours ‘position. ‘yet. However, don’t let me detain you. Good-night.” ‘His uncle, Abner Blake, junior member of the firm, had|” “Good- night;” said Cyril, departing. promised him the first vacancy. When he awakened in the morning, the sun was shining Cyril at once applied to Mr. Blake, and was made a brightly, and the train was just entering Pittsburg. salesman i in the store. Cyril took a cab, and directing the coachman to drive to , Cyril was twenty-two, quite poor, and i in love; so he de-| yfys, Candor’s, who lived in Oakland, he proceeded to open termined to devote himself very earnestly to his business, | his valise and look at the diamonds, to assure himself of hoping that application might lead to his promotion, and} inoiy safety. ultimately enable him to marry Florence Titus, fo whom} fo gave a ery of horror as he perceived that they were he had been secretly engaged for almost a year? in fact, : gone. ever since he was graduated from college. Hastily springing from the cab he returned to the sta- As their engagement had never been announced, Florence | tion. till had several suitors for her hand. _ Among others a certain Wilson Clide, who despised Cyril’ i Ea aa bs heuer anager ie Ce ho al because he saw Florence preferred him beyond all her other Hine eee 8 overs. ; ss The conductor said that that passenger had gotten out _ Clide was alsovamployed by Carter, Blake & Co. _ at a little town about thirty miles below Pattshurg, with | He was superintendent of the repairing department. |. sother man. -- One morning early in the new year, Mr. Blake a for Cyril then told the conductor of the robbery, and sent _ Oyril to come to his private office. telegrams all around to stop the thief. When the latter entered he said: « All.day he waited in the Pittsburg depot. Pn See ae aie Se 1S ee Gradually the answers to the telegrams came back to nl andor’s very valuable diamonds, and we dare not trust |) in hut Gey Cbistaaribe Ti claw 66 the Pees pe em to the mail.or express company, so we want you to No nue tial Beltrmsy auth -aetanl ahakig dia: rt to-night for Pittsburg and carry them to her. Tt will ‘restfallen and unhappy, Cyril returned to San ake. oo) Se ane a yest Copan Ser ae He arrived there about nine o’clock, and going at once — . apie 7 Tee Naa wisgeevitacaegeln ses to Carter, Blake & Co., sought out Mr. Blake i in his private | office and told him the whole story—his suspicions of bap Here Mr. Blake stooped and este Se mae tn and his Peis such for him. 2 . nile they were talking Wilson e ente ie sent question gl per SP hee ah a ees - His gray hair and pale “face seemed to Cyril to be whiter ter Cyril left the office in the afternoon he had only t nilswikwh uetote ha lekt time to bid Florence a hasty good-by and hurry for the re na pe aa x aie i ing train to Pittsburg. yril’s mental commen’ t as the train was starting a young oy boarded it| “He has proposed to a lorence and heen Sule ‘That eed bsg r ae RE pail mie fomcngs " wa rf eral telegram from Mrs. Candor say- lave * t delivered yesterday as promised, ‘or a while Cyril read, looking up every now and then to| ing the diamonds were no watch the young hoy who sat opposite and whose face| Have they been sent?’ asked Wilson oie looking from seemed to him to be somewhat familiar; then, too, the boy | Oe te the other. js i so strangely—he seemed to be suffering from some} Then Mr. Blake told him the entire wits: first taking : “great and suppressed excitement, which, though he did his ; care to send Cyril from the room. Te to hide it, exhibited itself in the anxious glances he} For though he doubted him, he felt sorry for him. | a: pout the car and his restless manner. Mr. Carter was called in, a hurried council was held, an _ Finally the boy arose and went to the end of the car officer summoned, and Cyril arrested and borne off to ry wh ere the smoking compartment was. — | prison cell. > Kaela tired of his book, decided to have a cigar, | He begged to be allowed to. eall and say a few words to : ig his action to his wish, also wont to the hcner Florence. nner Ld “ ~The request 1 was denied. She io not wish to : =a you—a thier be ‘sid Wy Ne a The boy seemed embarrassed by this good-natured
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28 He would have struck Clide had not Mr. Carter inter- fered. The officer led him down the steps. “You have forgotten your hat, Mr. Chester,” said Clide, following him to the door. “No matter,” said Cyril, passing down the street. Just as he “emia the corner he looked back and saw Clide kick the offending hat into the street with great vehiemence. “He don’t seem to like you,” said the officer. “Hardly,” replied Cyril, sadly. The trial was almost over. Cyril found his chances for acquittal less and less. __ Clide had sworn falsely, but so well that Cyril saw the establishment of his innocence further and further away. Cyril buried his face in his hands, and thought bitterly of his ruined life and Florence. _ “There ig one more witness,” said the lawyer for the de- FONSE. . Cyril looked up. Wilson Clide turned deadly pale, and seemed as if he would faint as Florence stepped = the stand. - She was duly sworn in.. _ “Your name, miss?” “Plorence Titus.” “Your age ?” “Nineteen.” “Your residence ?” “No. 185 West —— Street.” “Will you kindly tell us all you know about this diamond robbery ?” “Mr. Clide and Mr. Chester are both friends of mine. Last week Mr. Clide—” “T object!” cried the opposing lawyer, rising. honor, I object.” “Omit that part,” then said the judge, turning to Flor- ence and speaking gently to her. “But I can’t tell my story otherwise,” the witness an- swered, turning suddenly pale. _ ,There was some little confusion here caused by the at- tempt of Mr. Clide to leave the court and make his way through the crowd. The twitness continued her story: “About a week ago Mr. Clide proposed to me. I re- jected him upon the ground that I was already engaged to Mr. Chester. Mr. Clide grew angry, and vowed to be -revenged on Mr. Chester—” Again the objection was raised to her testimony, again _ the objection was removed, and she was permitted to tell her story in her own way. ; My. Clide, after he left me, wrote two letters, evidently. One was for me, and the other for a person called J ock. Mr. Clide dvidently sent my letter to Jock, and Jock’s to me. It is here, and I think will materially aid in clearing Mr. Chester.” The letter was produced. : It read thus: Dea: J ock: —Your scheme is good. Besides making us sh, it will aid me in a ae “personal oils ‘Take ar Chest ised. Hi oO FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. “Your . ‘though Clide’s game was clever and his diamond tsburg on a r a ee H. Hoes They are in a valise, small, black, marked ee “Wilson C.”: “Arrest that man,’ ” eried the judge, pointing to Wilson Clide, who sat shivering in a corner. a “But ‘he is innocent; he did not’ commit the robbery— 4 the thief was another man—the ‘ees cried Florence, very much agitated. But the judg interrupted her, saying: “Where are they De / a “In my possession,” was her answer, and then in the “ most’ unexpected manner she fainted away and had to be We removed from the courtroom. sai A recess was announced. i Cyril, more dead than alive, and completely astounded by what he had heard, was born back to his cell. Florence was placed under arrest—ag an accomplice. Altogether there never was a more hopelessly confused case for bewildered jury than that one. The court reassembled. Florence, having recovered from her faintness, co tinued her testimonya it was as follows: : “Having received that letter, I decided to save the : diamonds, so I dressed in boy’s clothes.” Here she paused and blushed furiously, then contin ; “TI succeeded in getting the train just as it, left the sta- tion. My plan was to keep Mr. Chester awake all night talking to him, for this purpose. I succeeded in getting him in conversation. I took all the matches from the match-box in the smoking car, and Mr. Chester had apply to me for a light for “his cigar. After that we talked. but about twelve o’clock Mr. Chester got sleepy and wen to bed. I was in despair. I retired to my berth, which — was just opposite his, and watched. Finally I saw someone moving in the berth above Mr. Chester’s, I knew it ws Jock, so, anticipating him, I stole out and, drawing he little valise from under Mr. Chester’s head, retired, to I own berth. I took out the jewels and retutned the v I decided that I would restore them to Mr. Chester in the morning. Just then the train stopped at some littl station. I saw the man Jock leave the car. I followe He disappeared into the darkness. I followed him f few steps, and then, deciding that it was useless, I sta’ to return to the train. It was too late—the train was I had been so interested in Jock I had forgotten all else. There was nothing for me to do but wait until mom 8, as the station was closed for the night, of course. The di monds were in my pocket. About.six o’clolek the statio master came. I was then in my woman’s clothes, as a dress and a waist in the valise which hung from a § over my shoulder. I told him+I had’ been left ove mistake, He took me home, and his wife gave me breakfast. The next day I returned to New York, to tired to come before, and too weak. And—and- all.” é; 5 “You are a ks girl,” eid the judge. Lei Everybody cheered and cheered as she took he until the room re-echoed. Cyril and Florence are to be ete inthe spring. a a BR, still Florence Bed her Hearts better,
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The City of Vancouver, British Columbia, has been reatly annoyed by the smoke from sawmills and lumber mills. ‘To overcome this nuisance, a company has been formed to supply these mills with electric power. As fuel for the general plant, however, it is planned to use the awdust from the lumber mills’ waste heaps. As the power s obtained in this way from a waste product, electricity /can be furnished at greatly reduced rates, and not only is the smoke nuisance abated, but the problem of disposing of enormous piles of. sawdust is also solved. An army airman, named Bellini, of the French Military \viation Corps, fell while flying at the Versailles acro- rome and was killed. The death of Bellini constitutes the 261st fatality in the annals of aviation and the 43d ce the beginning of the current year. In the first four mths of 1912 the number of fatalities récorded was only 17%. Two military air pilots were slightly injured during a collision between a biplane and a monoplane at a low altitude on the military aerodrome at Chalons. Cap- tain Vicomte Léom Claude Suisse de Saint-Clare and Lieu- tenant Decas, of the Military Aviation Corps, both fell to the ground, their machines being shattered. was reported recently that the police have been in- formed that a plot to assassinate King Alfonso of Spain when he visits France has been discovered at Montpelier. understood that a Spanish anarchist is under arrest fontpelier ‘and that letters which have been seized im- ite two other men and a woman. It is believed that e anarchists chose Montpelier in order to assassinate the uest.of President Poimcare. A despatch received from rid says that anarchists in the Spanish capital are busy that the police have discovered an evident apparent attempt to take the life of the papal nuncio. It is said a deadly bomb was picked up near the nuncio’s resi- If it had exploded it would have demolished the zZ Turkish periodicals publish statistics of the Mussulman ation of the world; and although it is difficult! to fol- bsolutely the statistics of a country where records are erfectly kept, the approximate results are as follows: e Ottoman Empire. contains 24,000,000 persons, of whom 000, 000 live in' Europe and 18,000, "000° in Asia. But of | ese not more than one-half profess the faith of Moham- lowers of Mohammed, numbering several millions. In ja there are some 50,000,000 Mussulmans, while Persia, stan, Arabia, and other independent countries in ye about ; 20; 000,000. more. rith Bornes, the Philippines, and other adjacent ain’ ee bps Goa peace. FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. GooD READING e Spanish monarch before he reached Paris, where he will be. The Russian Empire has quite a proportion of the]: The Dutch colony of. AIL the northern The New York Nautical School training ship Newport, with seventy cadets, commanded by Captain E. H. Tilman, U. 8. N., on board, sailed from Hast 24th street the other afternoon on the annual summer eruise.’ Glen Cove, Long Island, is the first stopping place, where the cadets, more than half of whom have never been to sea, will become initiated into the art of furling and reefing sails and man- ning lifeboats. After a week of training the ship will proceed to Narragansett Bay, with stops at New London and Gardiner’s Bay. Hamilton, Bermuda, is the next port, whence the Newport will return to the United States coast and work up to Halifax. The entire trip will last five months. Last’ year the Newport crossed the Atlantic and gave the cadets an opportunity to witness the Olympic games, but it was decided to limit this year’s cruise to home waters. A slide for life more thrilling than any ever planned by designing showmen to startle a languid public was involuntarily performed the other day by Henry Winges, -an ironworker, of No. 544 West 53d Street, New York. Winges wag swinging a steel girder into place on the top. floor of a fourteen-story building near 23d Street and Sixth Avenue, when he lost his balance. Flinging out his hands, he came in contact with the steel cable which ran from the block over hig head to the engine in the street, and hung on with all his might. All the way down the four- teen floors he slid, whirling around and around the cable, but never releasing his grip. By the time he reached the bottom he had slackened his speed so much that his com- rades were able to catch him and lay him gently on the ground, where he sank exhausted. A call to the New York Hospital brought Dr. Waters, who treated the man’s hands, . from which the flesh had been nearly burned by the terrific triction. He was later removed to his home, where it was said that he would be on the job again in a few days. The number of pencils used in the United States annual- ly, if divided evenly, would leave only two for each of its population. A pair of pencils a year would be.a small allowance for those requiring them every day. Yet, at this rate, when the total of. bbout 160,000,000 for the whole country is calculated, one cannot help wondering how it is posible to consume such a vast number of pencils. Some of the pencils we buy are “made in Germany,” but of. the entire number that Americans use nine-tenths are of home manufacture. A considerable quantity of this article is also exported as well as imported. The pencil factories of the United States employ upward of 2,000 people, paying them about $700,000 wages every year. America’s! annual — output of pencils is worth $2,000,000. ‘The wood most — . commonly sought for making pencils is Virginia or red cedar, which grows abundantly in the South, especially in. Be Alabama and Florida. oe oe hari ope as Coe
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BO FAME AND FORTUNE. WEEKLY. ARTICLES OF ALL KINDS " a AN OLD INDIAN GRAVE FOUND, While digging a drain ditch recently on the west bank of the Williamette River, about a mile south of Oregon City, workmen uncovered an old Indian grave. In the grave, which, from its position, is known to be at least 100 years old, were found an old bear trap and a flint lock rifle, both of which bore the marl of the Hudson Bay Company. The bear trap is in a good state of preservation, but the rifle has been rusted into three pieces. Besides the rifle _ and trap there also were found fitty feet of glass and copper beads and a stone tomahawk. A GREAT MOTORING CONTEST. What promises to be one of the greatest motoring con- tests ever held is the Chicago-to-Boston non-stop reliability run June 25 to 29. This contest will be held under the}: auspices of the Chicago Automobile Club, with the co-oper- tion of the Bay State Automobile Association of Boston and the Motor Dealers’ Contest Association of New York. Fifteen-minute stops are provided for at South Bend, Tole- do, ‘Erie, Rochester, Albarty and New York City, with _ other controls along the route, for the purpose of changing crews aud replenishing with fuel and water. According to the schedule mapped out, the run from Chicago to Boston, 1,275 miles, will be coyered in sixty-eight hours of actual running time, so that the cars will be forced to maintain an average of more than eighteen miles an hour on the es 50 DARTMOUTH DROPS MEDICAL COURSE. | After the present junior class’ has graduated in 1914 Dartmouth will cease to grant the degree of Doctor of Medicine. The Medical School, as such, to all intents will be abandoned. At present it gives a four-year course. After 1914 Dartmouth will cease to give instruction in the. studies of the third and fourth years of the medical course. Instruction in the studies of the first and second years will be given in what will be a department of the eollege, and work in this department will lead toward the B. 8. degree. Students who pursue successfully the studies of this department it is intended shall be able to enter the class of the third year of any medical school. The Trustees say that they have taken this action because the college has suffered from the lack of clinical material. Its isolated situ- ation accounted for this. Theoretical study and laboratory work hereafter will afford students an opportunity to take advanced standing in medical schools. The Dartmouth Medical School, the fourth founded in the United States, was established in 1798, in which year two degrees of Bachelor of Medicine were conferred. Dr. Nathan Smith, Yale, 1790, assisted by Dr. Lyman Spalding, Harvard, 1797, carried on the entire’ work of the school until 1810. - In 1812 the school granted the degree of Doctor of Medi- - eine. Oliver Wendell Holmes was the professor of anatomy and physiology from 1838 to 1841. The requirements of A to the scheol w this fellow officers on the Panama Canal Res the wid as the college’ spite ido. not think it worth < to any about. until 1909, when the Trustees made a requirement of rere fi years of callegiate work hefore the study of medicine could : be hegun.: ‘The one hundred and seventeenth graduation | exercises of. the school were held on Friday, April 18, and ~ President Nichols conferred ten degrees. ‘The decision to suspend the Medical School puts Dartmouth again in the — ranks of pure colleges. Besides the special work for Mas- | ter’s degrees only two regular graduate courses are now offered, one in the Amog Tuck School of Administration and. Finance, the other in the Thayer School of Civil En- gineering. Dartmouth will offer a course’ next year in” scientific management as part of a second- iat yon in the Amos Tuck School. _ATRSHIP DANGER AT PANAMA. the route of the Panama Canal has started anew the ig- cussion of the vulnerability of the canal to attacks from. the sky. About four months ago Miss Moisant, while visit- ing on the Isthmus said that explosives eould easily dropped from, an aeroplane with sufficient accuracy, to } out of service any flight of locks; this is tantamount’ to o% putting the canal out of service. At that time Col. Goo. thals expressed his entire confidence that no airship could | come sufficiently close to the locks to drop explosives with i out being exposed to fire. Fowler’s flight was made for th eo? express purpose of taking a series of, birdseye moving pic-- tures, and to this end he sailed low, at no time heing 1 mouch higher than 2,000 feet above the canal. He is, hor e) ae also of the opinion that an aeroplane standing so high Vv the locks that it would be out of range of gunfire would be in- position to drop explosives upon vulnerable ca The locks. are great chambers of concrete with walls fifty. feet thick, and’ in the chambers there will always be fron ma ten to fifty feet of water. The only part of them that cou ae be injured is the gates. These are steel forms from. 40 to 80. feet high, seven feet thick and 65 feet wide. This W make a small target at a distance of a mile. On the ott: hand, the machines that move the gates are exposed the lock walls, being covered with only a thin roof « \- crete. They would form a better target, and yet this also would be only twenty-five feet in diameter. If thes vs chines were shattered the gates could still be “moved I hand, winches.. The smallness of the areas that could, affected by an explosive dropped upon them is, there a negative protection for the locks against air attac ch Positive protection will be afforded by an elaborate. seri of batteries, constructed for the primary purpose: of 1 r pelling land attacks, but also available for use against ay 1 tors. No airship would be safe within a mile of these b: teries, and none would be effective in an attack’ inless could come closer to its targets than a mile. In SS ie an explosive thrown from an airship were to disab ve of the lock gates, it would be more by Peano aim. This is the kind of accident that Col. Goethals
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ELECTRIC PUSH BUT- TON.—The base is made of maple, and the center piece of black walnut, the whole thing about 1% inches in diameter, with a metal hock on the back so that it may be slipped over edge of the vest pocket. Expose to view your New Electric Rt Bell, when your friend will PR sh the button expecting to hear it ring. ‘As soon as he touches it, you will see some of the liveliest dancing you ever witnessed. The ‘Electric Button is heavily charged and will Give a smart shock when the button is pushed. of Price 10c., by mail, postpaid. VOLFF NOVELTY CO., 29 W. 26th St., N. ¥. Pasig GERMAN OCARING. A handsome metal instru~ ejment, made in Germany, from which peculiar but sweet music can be produced, Seats Its odd shape, which resem- b es @ torpedo boat, will attract much atten- on. We send instructions with each instru- ent, by the aid of which anyone can in a + time play any tune and produce very sweet music on this odd-looking instrument. mia 10c. by aw pone THE GRuAT FIRE EATER. sex A great’ Sensational Trick otf " the bay! With the Fire Bater A in his possession any person can become a perfect salamander, ap- _g parently breathing fire and eject- (7 ing thousands of brilliant sparks from his mouth, to. the horror and consternation of all behold- ers. Harmless fun for all times, geasons and places. If you wish produce a decided sensation in your neigh- }orhood don’t fail to. procure oné. We send he Fire Hater with all the materials, in a handsome box, the cover of which is highly aim ented with illustrations in yarious col- Price of all complete only ibe., or 4 . es for tte mailed postpaid; ome dozen by press eirene } . Full printed instructions for per- Peahig the trick accompany each box, which iso contains sufficient material for giving ‘Beveral exhibitions. © FF. LANG, 1815 Centre St., B’klyn, N. %. ITCH POWDER. Geo whiz! What fun yeu can have with this stuff. Meoisten the Hon the contents of the box, and a little bit will ztick.. Then shake hands with your friend, or oxep a speck down nis back. In a minute he! will feel as if ke had the : hye years’ eles 2 1 him scratch, rear, squirm an ae, But it is perfectly harmless, aa is made from the seeds of wild roses. The ch steps se a teh camediasely by rubbing the spot ern cloth, While it js working, you i ope ap’ t ct laugh your #uspender buttens The Vest joke ef all, Price 16 cents z# Sex, > y mail, postpaid. WOLFF NOVELTY CO.,, 29 W. 26th St., N. ¥. ESSE og NEG RR REIS RACES RS SSN EEE SNAKES IN THE GRASS , Something entirely new, consisting of six large cones, each one | nearly one inch in height. Upon light- ing one of these cones with a match, you see a 4th of July -exhibi- placed on some metal surface that will not An ordinary dust pan answers the pur- ; micely. Price of the six cones, packed in ‘wd a mek eh wooden box, only 100., 8 ho es for 26c., 1 dozen boxes 75e., sent by mai aid. GALL IGAN, 419 W. 56th St., N.Y. BED0Oo 00 FLOWER-POT TRICK With this trick you can make e pant ‘right up in @ flower-pot, Defore the eyes of your audience, An ordinary ‘empty earthen flower-pot is handed to eke ‘spectators for examination. A handkerchief is then placed over it, and you repeat a few magic words, and re fe your wand over it. When Se handkerchief | is removed there is “Bloom, in apparently in- "tall 1} dire actions sat e, 15 conta ieee wal +p tip. of your finger, tap | & a few minutes, or can P something similar to oe enameled turned wood v ay SOLID-BREECH HAMMERLESS SIDE-EJECTING © Sure Safe Shooting for Man or Boy—And a Simple Rifle to Care For The Remington-UMC .22 Repeater is rifled, sighted and tested for accuracy by expert gunsmiths. It shoots as you hold. The simple, im- proved safety device on every Remington-UMC .22 repeater never fails to work. Accidental discharge is impossible. The Remington-UMC .22 Repeater is easily cared for. down, your fingers are your only tools. In_ taking The breech block, firing pin’ and extractor, come out in one piece—permitting the barrel to be cleaned from the breech. The action handles .22 short, .22 long or .22 long rifle cartridges—any or all at the same time without adjustment. Remington-UMC—the perfect shooting combination BS calc lasame Soni ee awed 60. BEMEDY tent to you on FREN Ef it cures, wend. 1. 00; if not, don’t. Givo expross 0 flee, Welte today, Wr. Kk, Bterlinc, 837 0 Ave., Sidusy, Ohia, ASTHMA THE AUTOPHONE. A small musical instru- ment that produces very Sweet musical notes by placing it between the lips with the tongue over the edge, and blowing gently into the instrument. The notes produced are not unlike those of the fife and flute. We send full y m™ printed instructions whereby anyone can play anything they can hum, whistle or sing, with very little practice. Price, 10c.; 3 tor 2Be., mailed,, postpaid. Cc, BEHR, 150 W. 624 St., New York Oity. THE FIGHTING ROOSTERS, » fighting game cocks. 4 hese liiputian fighters have real feathers, yellow thelr movements when fighting are perfectly nat- ural and lifelike, and the secret of their movements is known only to the operator, who can cause them to battle with each other as often and as long as desired. Independent of their fighting proclivities they make very pretty mantel ornaments, Price for the pair in a eine a 10c.; 3 pairs for 25¢, by mail, ostpa vOLEE NOVELTY 00., 29 W. 26th St, No ¥, aHE SPRINGER. Don’t miss this brand new nov- elty. It is a Uttle figure made in various shapes, perched on a spring and pedestal. You push down the spring, set it where you please, and in a few moments it leaps up into the air, scaring the cat, and sending every ‘one in the room into convulsidns of .laugh- ter. Price. 10c, each by mail, nee paid. °C. BEHR, 150 W. 62d St., New York City. MARBLE VASE. a ’ A clever and puzzling effect, : easy to do; the apparatus can. i be minutely examined. Wflect: A marble can be made to pass --¥ase, whieh a moment before as shown empty. ase. is a a Ve GALLIGAN, 419 W. 56th st, Be if Bo TRIAL, | A full blooded pair of}, legs and flery red combs, ‘ from the hand into the closed | © 299 raved Bas York oud “ 10 DI DAYS FREE TRIAL 3 ep ee ee {poate tity 2 a cane jepos re) ie PAY CENT T it ppd sre nob eased Lim after ae the bicycle 10 days. DO ROT BUY ¢ veers om opae wat any price until you receive ourlatest fy art Sakelons i illustrating every kind of bieyole, and learned our ef ced and ma: fs all {# will com you to write a postal and ay pos woh valuable in» fi ‘a ion. aEoe watt, write it now RES, ©, rear whoels, lempa, ao oF at mye eh gh FS Mead Oxcle Go. Dept. rissChleage ae Gurrit FREE > BoYsS ! Here ia your chance te get @fino baseball outfit, consist! clsting of completo suit. including shire pants, cap and belt, good cttnatie extra well sowed, or comb: tion of big catcher’ ‘a mits, flelder’y glove, catcher’s mask (oxtra strong both Sori and rubber conter ba ig leaguo style, or fine sg pioteoton: We ti Not ti Cost One Gent. Send your name and we will send you § . set of onr fine pictures to dispose en 25 conts each. Sond us the ' pi m collect and for yous Rit trouble will send fy! a bia described. WWE TODAL for pictures. No >) done. uy} ho. back what you can’é sell. M. 0. Seltz, aar9 Chicage $—OLD COINS WANTED-8 87.75 Paid for RARE date 1853 Qnarter. and $3¢ without arrows. CASH prem: iums paid on hundreds of old coins. Keep all money dated before 1895 and send ' EN cents at once for New » Tiustrated Coin Value rake. size 4x7. Get Posted and make money easy. OC. f. CLARKE & OO.,, Coin Dealers,Box 21, Le Koy, N. r ay PASERALL CURVERT areas Ourves come from. Hend for s et toe Ba day ifyon want to be a CRACK PITCHED aud PEK, fon out the batters. "Fill lostructione for throwing pe / allourves. This curver is offeredto introduce Kveryday nf. Lifo inte new homes, ind 25 ots, to pay for ay: ry yg subscription and we will send you our Fone your iy sod mako you a free presontof our Wi Ourver. BY WM. Co. 387 W. Madison St. {171 arene beget OF FUN FOR A DIME Ventriloqitist Double poxt eae Fits roof of Pepa padi ah) apis vet, Astonish and mystify it oe : Nolan like a hares whine ri ee iat sii ae / like a canary, and imitate bir the field and forest, Loads fulinvent tion. Thi
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IMITATION GOLD TEETH, Gold pfated tooth, shape made so that it will fit any tooth. Price, 5c., postpaid. WOLFF NOVELTY CO., 29 W. 26th St., N. ¥. Ph eh PET SET TE LN AEN SEE STE MICROSCOPE. By use of this wonderful little mi- croscope you can magnify a drop of stagnant water until you see dozens of crawling insects; is also useful for inspecting grain, pork, linen, and numerous other articles. This little instrument does equally as good work as the best microscopes an Is made of best finished brass; size when closed 1x2% inches. Price, 30c. LL. Senarens, 347 Winthrop St., Brooklyn, N, Y. pandas A TRON TDD nc SSA aA SN GET A LOCUST. Clicks Mke a tele- graph sounder The pest rooter made, Baseball Games, Meetings, and Sport- ing Events. Just the thing to make @ big arose shee Pale 4m your vest pocket, bu a Seats brass band, made of lacquered metal, and stamped to look exactly like 7 Jocust. It is as ornamental as it is useful. Suitable for young and old. by mail. \ _ FE. LANG, 1815 Centre St., B’klyn, N. ¥. THE JOKER'S CIGAR. an tobacco y center of cigar about one-half Sle RAR SS ne ns SEE SRS SEA. AREY THE CAMERA CIGAR HOLDER. A beautiful ebonized — cigar holder that takes é (. pictures, WEvery smoker 4 who ioves fun will want one to entertain his friends. We furnish with each holder ma- terial, all prepared, for making six different photographs, and guarantee every paper to produce a completely finished photograph if directions are followed. Directions—Take holder apart at the joints, roll up one of the small blank papers (six furnished with each Holder) and insert it in the holder. Put the holder together and smoke a cigar for one minute. A beautiful finished photograph will appear on the paper, which can be taken out and preserved for years. Price of holder, with wix blank pictures, 10c.; 8 for 25c. by mail, ostpaid; extra blanks, be. per dozen. ee BEHR, 150 W. 62d St., New York City. __ KANGAROO PADLOCK. ‘ A handsome padlock stampe' out of polished steel. It locks it- self when the hasp is pressed down into the lock, but the puzzle ia to unlock it. You can instantly unlock it with the key, but no one not in the secret can unlock it. You can slip the hasp through @ friend’s buttonhole and force him to wear it until you release it, although he may have the key to the lock; or a boy and girl can be locked together by hasp through a buttonhole of Many other innocent and amusing jokes can be perpetrated with it upon your {friends and acquaintances. It is | not only a strong, useful padlock, but one of the best puzzles ever invented. Full printed instructions sent with each lock. They are a bonanza for agents, as they can be readily gold for 25 cents each. Our price, 1b5c.; 2 for 25c.; one dozen, $1.20, sent by mail, postpaid. WOLKE NOVELTY CO., 29 W. 26th St., N. ¥. RAPID CIGARETTE MAKE. This little ar icle should be in the pocket of every smoker. With it a perfect cigarette can be made in ten seconds, You will find them. equal in . . appearance and far su- perior in quality to commercial ones, at less than a quarter of the cost, With our cigar- ette maker in your possession, you can smoke a pipe or cigarette at. pleasure, as it’s just as (eee to roll a cigarette as to fill.a pipe. Every part of the cigarette maker is handsomely nickel-plated. Price, 15¢., or 3 for 400. by mail, postpaid. — WOLFE N sipping the their clothing. OVELTY CO., 29 W. 26th St., N. ¥. . cin s , i ‘t wah, a ig invaluable to the household. | Price, 12c. each, | SURPRISE KINEMATOGRAPH. The greatest hit of the season! It consists of a small metal, nickeled tube, with’ a lens eye view, which shows a pretty bal- let girl in tights. Hand it to a friend, who will be delighted with the first pic- ture; tell him to turn the screw in center of instru- ment to change the views, when a stream of water squirts into his face, much to his dis- gust. Anyone who has not seen this kinema- | tograph in operation is sure to be caught | every time. with water in an instant, ready for the next | customer. Price 25c, by mail, postpaid. WOLFF NOVELTY ©O., 29 W. 26th St., N. ¥. CHINESE RING PUZZLE. Here is a genuine “corker.”” The object is to remove the handle from the rings. Made of polished brass and - each one in a box. The bar’can be taken out and replaced in less than five minutes without bending the rings The instrument. can be refilled | i | { or bar, when you know how to do the trick. | Price hy mail, postpaid, 10c.; 3 for 25c. C. BEHR, 150 W. 62d St,, New York City. DEVILINE’S WHISTLE. Nickel plated and polished; it pro- duces a near-pierc- ing sound; large seller; illustration actual size, Price, a 1c. by mail, WOLFF NOVELTY CO., 29 W. 26th St., N. YW. HAPPY HOOLIGAN JOKER. With this joker in the lapel of your coat, you can make a dead shot every time. Complete with rub- ber ball and tubing. Price, 15c. by mail, postpaid. Cc. BEHR, 150 W. 62d St., New York City. €ARD THROUGH THE HAT TRICK 'anteed to make a man with iron neryes al- With this trick you bar- | row a hat, and appar- ently shove a card up through the crown, without injuring the card or hat. The oper- ation can be reversed, the performer seemingly pushing the card down through the crown into hres Mr lage at It is a rick which will puzzle and interest the closest obsefver and detection igs almost impossible. It is so simple that a ehild can learn how to perform it in a few minutes. ’ ; Price 10 cents each, by mail, post-paid M, V. GALLIGAN, 419 W. 56th St., N. ¥. GOOD LUCK BANKS. Ornamental as well as useful. Made ef highly n ed brass, t hetd:: just One Dollar, When Mied «st opens itself, Remains Tooked unth refiied. Can be used as a wetchcharm. Money refund- od if net satisfied. rico, 10c. by mail. L. Senarens, 347 Winthrop St., Brooklyn, N. ¥. I ck ARE TIE OR SS Tin eee ene naan Se Ee LAUGHING CAMERA. - Everybody grotesquely photographed; stout peo- ple look thin, and vice versa. Price, 25c. postpaid. WOLKE NOVELTY CO., : 29 W. 26th St., N. ¥. HELLO PUZZLE Can you get the ring off? This puzzle is the latest cre- ation of Yankee ingenuity. Apparently it is the easiest thing in the world to remove the ring from the block, but awe it takes hours of study to @iscover the trick, unless you know how it is done. Price by mail, postpaid, 10c.; 3 for 250. H, F. LANG, 1815 Centre St., B’klyn, N. ¥. FALSE MUSTACHE AND BEARD. / This is a novelty whereby you can make a great number of changes; in fact, you can so disguise yourself that your best friend won’t know you. This mustache and beard are go made that you can fix the same to your face and they will stay on. They are a very valuable acquisi- tion to your make-up when you mask or when you take part in some amateur | theatrical. Price by mail, postpaid, 10c. a set; 3 for 25e. WOLFF NOVELTY CO., 29 W, 26th ‘St, N. ¥. 1 i r ie i \ SNEEZING POWDER. — Tho greatest fun-maker 08 chem all. A sinall amount of this pewder, when Digwn in © room, will cause everyone to aneeze witheut anyone knowing where it comes from. It is very light, wiil fleat in the air fer some time, and pene ee every neolk and cerner ef a,reom, is perfecttiy harm- less. Cachee is put up in bettles, and ene — bettie contains enough to be used from 1¢ te © 15 times, Price, by mail, 10c. each; 3 for 25a, WOLFE NOVELTY CO., 29 W. 26th St., N. ¥ TRICK PUZZLE PURSE. The first attempt usually made to open it, is to press down the little knob in the center of the purse, when a small needle runs eel aus out and stabs them in the fin- ‘ 2 ger, but does not open it. You can open it before their eyes and still they will be unable to open it. Price, 25c. each by mail, postpald, H. F. LANG, 1815 Centre St., B’kiyn, N. SURPRISE LETTER DRUM. Stung! That was one on you! The joke? You senda friend a letter. He opens it, and that releases the drum. Instantly the sheet of note paper begins to bang and thump furiously, with a rip-— ping, tearing sound. Guar- _. CACHOO OR most jump out of his skin. You can catch © the sharpest wisenheimer with this one. Don’t miss getting a few. Price, 6c. each by mail. WOLFT NOVELTY CO., 20 W. 26th St., N. Yo (HI SURPRISE BOUQUET. The best practical joke of the season. This beautiful ~ buttonhole bouquet is made of artificial flowers and leaves which sc closely resemble natural flowers that not one — person in a thousand would detect the difference, Aftas placing the bouquet in yo buttonhole you call the attention of a frien to its beauty and fragrance. He will very naturally step forward and smell of it, when, to his utter astonishment, a fine stream 0: water will be thrown into his face. Whe the water comes from is a mystery, as you ci’ have your hands at your side,or behind ye! and not touch the bouquet in any mann, You can give one dozen or more persons shower bath without removing the bouqu’ — from your buttonhole, and after the water i / exhausted it can be immediately refilled with- — out removing it from your coat. Cologne can — be used in place of water when desired. We have many funny things in our stock, but nothing that excels this. Price, complete i a beautiful box, with full printed instruction 2bc., or 3 for 60c, by mail, postpaid. ©. BEHR, 150 W. 62d St., New York Cit, MANY TOOL KEY RING. The wonder of the age. Ring, Pencil Sharpener, and Cleaner, Watch Opener, Clipper, Letter Opener and §S Driver. It is not a toy, but a u article, made of cutlery steel, pered and highly nickeled. Theres will carry an edge the same as 4 piece of cutlery. As a useful tool, noth © hhas ever been offered to the public to equal. , Price, 15c., mailed, postpaid. These lively acrobat are handsomely deco rated with the U.. S&S. on any flat surface and tilting it they at once begin a most wonderful performante, climbing and tumbling over each other and chasin; each other in every direction, as if the ev spirit was after them, causing roars of laugh- ter from the Spectators, They actually pear imbued with life. What causes them t eut up such antics is a secret that may nol be known even to the owner of the unruly subjects. If you want some for a set of our tumblers. Price per set, 10c, m Pe « The most remarkable trick-cigar in the world. It smokes without tobacco, and never ~ gets smaller, Anyone can have a world of fun with it, especially if you smoke it in the — presence of a person who dislikes the peed ; of tobacco. It looks exactly like a pel fecto, and the smoke is so real that it is bound to deceive tee ploarge observe ; Ce ‘WOLFF NOVELTY CO., 29 W. 26
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HAND Boo EK o. £6, HOW TO MAKE AND USE ELEC- yarding the Camera and how to work it; oe with figures and the magic of numbers. B WiCITY.—A description of the wonderful | how to make Photographic Magic Lani A. Anderson, Fully illustrated. of electricity and electro magnetism; to- | Slides and other Transparencies. Handso ay No. 74. HOW TO WRITE LETTER er with full instructions for making Blec- | illustrated. CORRECTLY.—Containing full instruction Toys, Batteries, etc. By George Trebel, No. 62. HOW TO BECOME A WEST | for writing letters on almost any subject; M.D. Containing over fifty illustra- POINT MILITARY CADET. —Explains how | also rules for punctuation and composit ; im to gain admittance, course of Study, Exami- with specimen letters. y' A: 47. HOW TO BREAK, RIDE AND | nations, Duties, Staff of Officers, Post Guard, No. 75. HOW TO BECOME A ONS UR EE " é 3 A- HORSE.—A complete treatise on Police Regulations, Fire, Department, and all —Containing tricks with Dominoes, Dic : - Describing the most useful horses a boy should know to be a cadet. By Lu Cups and Balis, Hats, ete. Embracing bir : for pasties ‘the best horses for the road; | Senarens. six illustrations. By A. Anderson. ‘ also valuable recipes for diseases pecullar to No. 68. HOW TO BECOME A NAVAL No. %. HOW TO TELL FORTUNES BY CADET.—Complete instructions of how to gain | THE HAND.—Containing rules for telling fo 48. HOW TO AND SAIL | admission to the Annapolis Naval Academy. | tuneg by the aid of lines of the hand, or the NOES.—A handy book ‘or oys.,containing |. Also containing thescourse of instruction, de- a @irections for constructing canoes and the scription of grounds and bulldings, historical most popular manner of sailing them. gy sketch, and everything a boy should know to - iilustrated. become an officer in the Urited States Navy. No. 49, HOW TO DEBATE.—Giving rules | By Lu Senarens. _ for conducting debates, outlines for debates, No. 64. HOW TO MAKE ELECTRICAL questions for discussion, and the best sources MACHINES.—Containing full directions for for Droguning information on the questions making electrical machines, induction coils, dynamos, and many novel toya to be worked 50. HOW TO STUFF BIRDS AND AN- by electricity. By R. A. R. Bennett. Fully valuable book, giving instructions ‘ illustrated. in collecting, preparing, mounting and pre- No. 65. MULDOON’S JO .—The most serving birds, animals and insects. original joke book ever published, and it is 51. HOW TO DO TRICKS WITH | pbrimful of wit and humor. It contains a §.—Containing explanations of the gen- large collection of songs, jokes, conundrums, principles of sleight-of-hand applicable etc., of Terrence miaeer the great wit, hu- ee $6. card: sricks, of ee ones 2 148 nano oF morist and practical joker of the day. ards, and not requiring sleight-or-han 0) Wo yr y tricks involving sleight-of-hand, or the use of | taining yon wos Bae seereein poctins Gait prepared cards. Illustrated. and conundrums, with key to same. A com- . HOW TO PLAY CARDS.—Giving sets book. Fully illustrated. i hes aie full directions for playing Euchre, Cribbage, Casino, Forty-Five, Rounce, : 67. HOW TO, DO ELECTRICAL rece a Poker, Auction Pitch, All RICKS. “containing Vat #2. © collection or her ‘popular games of instructive, and using electrical tricks, together with itustrations y A. An- ders: baad No. 68. HOW ‘To DO CHEMICAL TRICKS. —Containing over one h Se penly, amus- ing and instructive tricks. chemicals. By A. Anderson. _Handsomely Hvatrat ae 2 of No. 69. HOW TO DO SLEIGHT-O ng complete Heinnation as to the | —Containing over fifty of the latest and best | 7 ; agian cel hand, pomethee with a of raising, keeping, tam- tricks used by magicians. Also containing the 1 oO eir one ty telling secret of second sight. Fully tllustrated. y nd aon Pe ale No. 70. HOW TO MAKE MAGIC TOYS.— lly illustrated, — Containing full directions for making Magic : 7 ea and devices of many ihr’ Fully illus- : secret of palmistry. Also the secret of tell: ing future even ald of moles, marks, — ‘Illustrated. eg With CARDS.—Containing deceptive Tricks as performed by leading conjurer magicians. Arranged for home amuse Fully illustrated. No. 78. HOW TO DO THE BLACK site —Containing a complete description of ths mysteries of Magic and Sleight-of-Hand, gether with many wonderful experiments. a A. Anderson. ree . No. 79. HOW TO BECOME AN ACTOR, —Containing Meadiees ral make up for various characters o together with the duties of the on Prompter, Scenic Artist ‘an go No. if Us ILLI Containing the latest ms 1 funny stories of this world Germ comedian. containing es; jome Co! ored cover conta! a nalkeeas wieote the author. No. 81. ing the most ow TO M ‘methods. ae mest ism; animal magnetism, or, magnetic By Prof. Leo Hugo Koch, A.C.8., auth “How to Hypnotize.” etc. * No. 82. HOW TO DO PALMISTR: taining a line most approved methods es Ow TO WRITE LETTERS.—A onderfu little book, telling you how to write to your .sweetheart, your father, mother, sis- ter, brother, By ee a in fact, every HYP’ TIZE.— valuable and instructive informatio CHANICAL ing the a ee of proved - TRICKS.—Containing — “complete instructions for performing aa ‘sixty Ly, apt cred Tricks. ‘Fully ie at 2 ; ; TO , SIXTY TRICKS all of LLECT STAMPS AND aluable information re- g and arranging of dsomely illustrated BECOME AN